Utilisation of Rep-PCR to track microbes in aerosols collected adjacent to their source, a saline lake in Victoria, Australia

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 450-451, Issue , 2013, Pages 317-325

  Munday, Chris I ^a   O'Loingsigh, Tadhg ^c,e   Tapper, Nigel J ^c   De Deckker, Patrick ^d   Allison, Gwen E ^a,b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b The Australian National University   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aeolian dust; Atmospheric bacteria; Bacillus; Bioaerosols; Microbial ecology; Repetitive element PCR

Indexed keywords

AEOLIAN DUSTS; ATMOSPHERIC BACTERIA; BIOAEROSOLS; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; REPETITIVE ELEMENT PCR;

ALGAE; BACILLI; BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; LAKES; POLYPROPYLENES; POLYSACCHARIDES; RNA; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; STORMS;

AEROSOLS;

HELIUM; POLYPROPYLENE;

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BACTERIUM; DATABASE; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALINE LAKE;

AEROSOL; AIRBORNE BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; REPETITIVE ELEMENT POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEDIMENT;

AEROSOLS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; LAKES; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SALINITY; VICTORIA;

AUSTRALIA; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

EID: 84875302022     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.02.028     Document Type: Article

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