Fine-scale degrader community profiling over an aerobic/anaerobic redox gradient in a toluene-contaminated aquifer

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 225-234

  Larentis, Michael ^a   Hoermann, Katrin ^a   Lueders, Tillmann ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GROUND WATER; TOLUENE;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOREMEDIATION; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYLOGENY; WATER POLLUTANT;

AEROBIOSIS; ANAEROBIOSIS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; GROUNDWATER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; TOLUENE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84874723030     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.12004     Document Type: Article

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