Linking microbial community structure to function in representative simulated systems

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 79, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2552-2559

  Marcus, Ian M ^a   Wilder, Hailey A ^a,b   Quazi, Shanin J ^a,c   Walker, Sharon L ^a  

^a University of California Riverside   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI O157:H7; FATE AND TRANSPORT; GROUNDWATER SYSTEM; GROWING CONDITIONS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; PATHOGENIC BACTERIUM; SIMULATED SYSTEM;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; GROUNDWATER; MICROORGANISMS; PLANTS (BOTANY); SEPTIC TANKS;

PATHOGENS;

GROUND WATER; RNA 16S;

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; GROWTH RATE; LABORATORY METHOD; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PATHOGENICITY; SIMULATION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; COLON; DNA SEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENT; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; MALE; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; MICROBIOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEWAGE;

ADULT; BASE SEQUENCE; COLON; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; ENVIRONMENT; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; GROUNDWATER; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEWAGE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIRMICUTES; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 84876196838     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.03461-12     Document Type: Article

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