Microbial community and potential functional gene diversity involved in anaerobic hydrocarbon degradation and methanogenesis in an oil sands tailings pond

Genome

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 612-618

  An, Dongshan ^a   Brown, Damon ^a   Chatterjee, Indranil ^a   Dong, Xiaoli ^a   Ramos Padron, Esther ^a   Wilson, Sandra ^a   Bordenave, Sylvain ^a   Caffrey, Sean M ^a   Gieg, Lisa M ^a   Sensen, Christoph W ^a   Voordouw, Gerrit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

454 pyrosequencing; Hydrocarbon degradation; Metagenomics; Microbial community; Oil sands tailings ponds

Indexed keywords

HYDROCARBON; METHANE; RNA 16S;

ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOSYNTHESIS; CANADA; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOLOGY; OIL AND GAS FIELD; PHYLOGENY; POND;

ALBERTA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; HYDROCARBONS; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; METHANE; OIL AND GAS FIELDS; PHYLOGENY; PONDS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84889828452     PISSN: 08312796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/gen-2013-0083     Document Type: Article

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