Microbial ecology of arsenic-mobilizing Cambodian sediments: Lithological controls uncovered by stable-isotope probing

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1857-1869

  Héry, Marina ^a,d   Rizoulis, Athanasios ^a   Sanguin, Hervé ^a,e   Cooke, David A ^b   Pancost, Richard D ^c   Polya, David A ^a   Lloyd, Jonathan R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^d LABORATOIRE DES SYMBIOSES TROPICALES ET MÉDITERRANÉENNES   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DESULFOVIBRIO; GEOBACTER; SULFUROSPIRILLUM;

ACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ARSENIC; DRINKING WATER; GROUND WATER; LACTIC ACID DERIVATIVE; RNA 16S;

CAMBODIA; CHEMISTRY; DESULFOVIBRIO; GENETICS; GEOBACTER; ISOTOPE LABELING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEOBACTERIA; SEDIMENT; WATER POLLUTION;

ACETATES; ARSENIC; CAMBODIA; DESULFOVIBRIO; DRINKING WATER; GEOBACTER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GROUNDWATER; ISOTOPE LABELING; LACTATES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEOBACTERIA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84931571191     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12412     Document Type: Article

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