Dechlorination and organohalide-respiring bacteria dynamics in sediment samples of the Yangtze Three Gorges Reservoir

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 7046-7056

  Kranzioch, Irene ^a   Stoll, Claudia ^a   Holbach, Andreas ^b   Chen, Hao ^c   Wang, Lijing ^c   Zheng, Binghui ^c   Norra, Stefan ^b   Bi, Yonghong ^d,e   Schramm, Karl Werner ^e,f   Tiehm, Andreas ^a  

^a DVGW Technologiezentrum Wasser ^*  (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c CHINESE RESEARCH ACADEMY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (China)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^f INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dehalococcoides spp.; Desulfitobacterium spp.; qPCR; Reductive dechlorination; Tetrachloroethene; Yangtze

Indexed keywords

POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE;

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DECHLORINATION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; ORGANOHALOGEN; POLLUTION MONITORING; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOREMEDIATION; CHEMISTRY; CHINA; CHLOROFLEXI; CLASSIFICATION; DESULFITOBACTERIUM; HALOGENATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEDIMENT; WATER POLLUTANT;

BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CHINA; CHLOROFLEXI; DESULFITOBACTERIUM; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HALOGENATION; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

CHINA; THREE GORGES RESERVOIR; YANGTZE RIVER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DEHALOBACTER; DEHALOCOCCOIDES; DESULFITOBACTERIUM; DESULFOMONILE; DESULFUROMONAS;

EID: 84884702927     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: 16147499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-013-1545-9     Document Type: Article

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