Mixed-Species Biofilms Cultured from an Oil Sand Tailings Pond can Biomineralize Metals

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 70-80

  Golby, Susanne ^a   Ceri, Howard ^a   Marques, Lyriam L R ^b   Turner, Raymond J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b HydroQual Laboratories Ltd   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RHODOCOCCUS ERYTHROPOLIS;

BACTERIAL DNA; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; METAL; PETROLEUM; SEWAGE;

BACTERIA; BIOFILM; BIOREMEDIATION; CANADA; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; POND; RHODOCOCCUS; SEWAGE;

ALBERTA; BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOFILMS; DNA, BACTERIAL; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; METALS; PETROLEUM; PONDS; RHODOCOCCUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEWAGE;

EID: 84902485641     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-013-0331-z     Document Type: Article

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