Mercury methylation coupled to iron reduction by dissimilatory iron-reducing bacteria

Chemosphere

Volumn 122, Issue , 2015, Pages 206-212

  Si, Youbin ^a   Zou, Yan ^a   Liu, Xiaohong ^a   Si, Xiongyuan ^a   Mao, Jingdong ^b  

^a ANHUI AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dissimilatory iron reducing bacteria; Iron reduction; Mercury methylation; Methylmercury

Indexed keywords

ALKYLATION; BACTERIA; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; MERCURY COMPOUNDS; METHYLATION;

GEOBACTER SULFURREDUCENS; INITIAL CONCENTRATION; IRON REDUCING BACTERIA; IRON REDUCTION; MERCURY METHYLATION; METHYL MERCURY; SHEWANELLA ONEIDENSIS; TERMINAL ELECTRON ACCEPTORS;

IRON COMPOUNDS;

IRON; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY; SUCROFERRIC OXYHYDROXIDE; MERCURIC CHLORIDE; METHYLMERCURY DERIVATIVE;

COMPLEXATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); IRON; METHYLMERCURY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; REDOX CONDITIONS;

ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); GEOBACTER SULFURREDUCENS; INOCULATION; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; SHEWANELLA ONEIDENSIS; GEOBACTER; METABOLISM; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; SHEWANELLA;

GEOBACTER SULFURREDUCENS; SHEWANELLA ONEIDENSIS;

GEOBACTER; IRON; MERCURIC CHLORIDE; MERCURY; METHYLATION; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SHEWANELLA;

EID: 84920508102     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: 18791298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2014.11.054     Document Type: Article

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