Bacteria and genes involved in arsenic speciation in sediment impacted by long-term gold mining

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Costa, Patrícia S ^a   Scholte, Larissa L S ^b   Reis, Mariana P ^a   Chaves, Anderson V ^a   Oliveira, Pollyanna L ^a   Itabayana, Luiza B ^a   Suhadolnik, Maria Luiza S ^a   Barbosa, Francisco A R ^a   Chartone Souza, Edmar ^a   Nascimento, Andréa M A ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; RNA 16S; GOLD; WATER;

ACTINOBACTERIA; AIOA GENE; ARRA GENE; ARSC GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DNA EXTRACTION; ENRICHMENT CULTURE; FIRMICUTES; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GOLDMINER; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MINING; NONHUMAN; PANNONIBACTER; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOBACTERIA; SEDIMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; THERMOMONAS; BACTERIA; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METABOLOMICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; TIME;

ARSENIC; BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOTRANSFORMATION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GOLD; METABOLOMICS; MINING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; TIME FACTORS; WATER;

EID: 84899742372     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0095655     Document Type: Article

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