Carbon and chlorine isotope fractionation during microbial degradation of tetra-and trichloroethene

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 6449-6456

  Wiegert, Charline ^a   Mandalakis, Manolis ^b   Knowles, Tim ^c   Polymenakou, Paraskevi N ^b,e   Aeppli, Christoph ^a   Macháčková, Jiřina ^d,f   Holmstrand, Henry ^a   Evershed, Richard P ^c   Pancost, Richard D ^c   Gustafsson, Örjan ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^d AECOM CZ Sro   (Czech Republic)

^e MASS SPEC ANALYTICAL LTD   (United Kingdom)

^f WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA GENE CLONE LIBRARIES; CHLORINATED ETHENES; CHLORINE ISOTOPE FRACTIONATIONS; COMPOUND-SPECIFIC ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; ISOTOPE ENRICHMENTS; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; REDUCTIVE DECHLORINATION; REMEDIATION STRATEGIES;

AQUIFERS; BIODEGRADATION; CARBON; CHLORINE; DECHLORINATION; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; NATURAL ATTENUATION; REMEDIATION; RNA; SOIL POLLUTION; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ISOTOPES;

CARBON; CHLORINE; GROUND WATER; RNA 16S; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; TRICHLOROETHYLENE;

AQUIFER POLLUTION; BIODEGRADATION; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CARBON ISOTOPE; CHLORINE ISOTOPE; DATA SET; DECHLORINATION; ETHYLENE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NATURAL ATTENUATION; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; DECHLORINATION; DEHALOGENATION; DNA EXTRACTION; ENRICHMENT CULTURE; FRACTIONATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; LIQUID LIQUID EXTRACTION; MICROBIAL ATTENUATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; NONHUMAN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOIL MICROFLORA; SOIL POLLUTION; WATER POLLUTION;

AIR POLLUTANTS; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CARBON ISOTOPES; CHLORINE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ISOTOPES; TRICHLOROETHYLENE;

DESULFITOBACTERIUM; TETRA;

EID: 84879211180     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es305236y     Document Type: Article

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