Field evidence of selenium bioreduction in a uranium-contaminated aquifer

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 444-452

  Williams, Kenneth H ^a   Wilkins, Michael J ^b   N'Guessan, A Lucie ^b   Arey, Bruce ^b   Dodova, Elena ^c   Dohnalkova, Alice ^b   Holmes, Dawn ^c   Lovley, Derek R ^c   Long, Philip E ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; GROUND WATER; OXYGEN; RNA 16S; SELENIC ACID; SELENIUM; SELENIUM DERIVATIVE; URANIUM;

ARTICLE; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BIOFILM; BIOREMEDIATION; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; MICROBIOLOGY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; THAUERA; UNITED STATES; WATER POLLUTANT;

ACETATES; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOFILMS; COLORADO; GROUNDWATER; HUMANS; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SELENIUM; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; THAUERA; URANIUM; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

DECHLOROMONAS; THAUERA;

EID: 84876784055     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.12032     Document Type: Article

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