Patterns of benthic bacterial diversity in coastal areas contaminated by heavy metals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue OCT, 2015, Pages

  Quero, Grazia Marina ^a   Cassin, Daniele ^a   Botter, Margherita ^a   Perini, Laura ^a   Luna, Gian Marco ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chemical pollution; Marine sediments; Microbial diversity; Next generation sequencing; PCBs

Indexed keywords

HEAVY METAL; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; GENE SEQUENCE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIOME; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WATER CONTAMINATION;

EID: 84946829509     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.01053     Document Type: Article

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