Metal mobilization by iron- and sulfur-oxidizing bacteria in a multiple extreme mine tailings in the Atacama Desert, Chile

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2189-2196

  Korehi, H ^a   Blothe M ^a   Sitnikova, M A ^a   Dold, B ^b   Schippers, A ^a  

^a FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA GENE DIVERSITY; ACIDIC CONDITIONS; ACIDITHIOBACILLUS; ACIDOPHILIC IRON; ARCHAEA; ATACAMA DESERT; ATACAMA DESERT , CHILE; CELL COUNT; CHEMOLITHOAUTOTROPHIC; CLONE LIBRARY; DEPTH PROFILE; DRY WEIGHT; ENRICHMENT CULTURE; EXTREME ENVIRONMENT; HALOTOLERANT; HIGH SALINITY; METAL MOBILIZATIONS; METALS CONCENTRATIONS; MINE TAILINGS; NACL CONCENTRATION; NORTHERN CHILE; PYRITE OXIDATION; REAL-TIME PCR; SALT CONCENTRATION; SULFOBACILLUS; SULFUR OXIDIZING BACTERIA; VARIABLE NUMBER;

BACILLI; HEAVY METALS; MICROORGANISMS; ORGANIC CARBON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SEAWATER; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SULFUR; TAILINGS;

IRON COMPOUNDS;

FERRIC ION; FERROUS ION; PYRITE; RNA 16S;

ACIDITY; BACTERIUM; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DOMINANCE; ELEMENT MOBILITY; HEAVY METAL; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MOBILIZATION; OXIDATION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); PYRITE; REACTION RATE; SALINITY TOLERANCE; SEAWATER; SECONDARY MINERAL; SULFUR; TAILINGS;

ACIDITHIOBACILLUS; ALICYCLOBACILLUS; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CHILE; DRY WEIGHT; GENE DOSAGE; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOCHEMISTRY; IRON OXIDIZING BACTERIUM; METAL METABOLISM; METAL MOBILIZATION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MINE TAILINGS; MINERALOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALINITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SULFUR OXIDIZING BACTERIUM;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CHILE; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; IRON; METALS, HEAVY; MINING; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SALINITY; SULFIDES;

ATACAMA DESERT; CHILE;

EID: 84874603251     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es304056n     Document Type: Article

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