The effect of anthropogenic arsenic contamination on the earthworm microbiome

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1884-1896

  Pass, Daniel Antony ^a   Morgan, Andrew John ^a   Read, Daniel S ^b   Field, Dawn ^b   Weightman, Andrew J ^a   Kille, Peter ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDOBACTERIA; ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; EARTHWORMS (SP.); GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; LUMBRICUS RUBELLUS; PROTEOBACTERIA; SERRATIA SP.;

ARSENIC; RNA 16S; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANT;

ACIDOBACTERIA; ACTINOBACTERIA; ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; BACTEROIDETES; CHEMISTRY; COMAMONADACEAE; DRUG EFFECTS; ECOSYSTEM; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; OLIGOCHAETA; PHARMACOLOGY; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANT;

ACIDOBACTERIA; ACTINOBACTERIA; ANIMALS; ARSENIC; BACTEROIDETES; COMAMONADACEAE; ECOSYSTEM; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; MICROBIOTA; OLIGOCHAETA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

EID: 84931568467     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12712     Document Type: Article

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