Depth-resolved abundance and diversity of arsenite-oxidizing bacteria in the groundwater of Beimen, a blackfoot disease endemic area of southwestern Taiwan

Water Research

Volumn 47, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 6983-6991

  Das, Suvendu ^a   Kar, Sandeep ^a   Jean, Jiin Shuh ^a   Rathod, Jagat ^b   Chakraborty, Sukalyan ^a   Liu, Hsiao Sheng ^a   Bundschuh, Jochen ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b M S UNIVERSITY OF BARODA   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arsenite oxidizing bacteria; Groundwater arsenic; MPN PCR; PCR DGGE

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; ARSENIC; BACTERIA; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ELECTROPHORESIS; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDROGEOLOGY; NATURAL ATTENUATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ARSENIC CONCENTRATION; ARSENITE-OXIDIZING BACTERIA; CONTAMINATED AQUIFER; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESES (DGGE); GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; MOST PROBABLE NUMBER; MPN-PCR; PCR-DGGE;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

ARSENIC TRIOXIDE; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; GENOMIC DNA; GROUND WATER;

ABUNDANCE; ARSENITE; BACTERIAL DISEASE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ENDEMIC SPECIES; OXIC CONDITIONS; OXIDATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARSENITE OXIDIZING BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BLACKFOOT DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGANISMS BY METABOLISM; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TAIWAN; WATER SAMPLING;

TAIWAN;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS SP.;

ARSENITE OXIDIZING BACTERIA; GROUNDWATER ARSENIC; MPN-PCR; PCR-DGGE;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARSENITES; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ENDEMIC DISEASES; GROUNDWATER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PSEUDOMONAS; TAIWAN; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84888133413     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2013.07.049     Document Type: Article

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