Aerobic and anaerobic microbial degradation of crude (4-methylcyclohexyl)methanol in river sediments

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 547, Issue , 2016, Pages 78-86

  Yuan, Li ^a,b,c   Zhi, Wei ^a,d   Liu, Yangsheng ^a   Smiley, Elizabeth ^b   Gallagher, Daniel ^b   Chen, Xi ^c   Dietrich, Andrea ^b   Zhang, Husen ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b State University   (United States)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

4 MCHM isomers; 4 MCHM degrading bacteria; Crude (4 methylcyclohexyl)methanol; Degradation kinetics; Mineralization; West Virginia chemical spill

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; BIODEGRADATION; CYCLOHEXANE; DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY; ISOMERS; KINETICS; METHANOL; MICROBIOLOGY; MINERALOGY; OIL SPILLS; PLANTS (BOTANY); RNA; SEDIMENTS;

16S RRNA GENE SEQUENCE; AEROBIC AND ANAEROBIC CONDITIONS; ANAEROBIC DEGRADATION; CHEMICAL SPILL; DEGRADATION KINETICS; FIRST-ORDER KINETIC MODELS; MINERALIZATION; TREATMENT TECHNOLOGIES;

OXIC SEDIMENTS;

(4 METHYLCYCLOHEXYL)METHANOL; CHEMICAL COMPOUND; NITRATE; RNA 16S; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; 4-METHYLCYCLOHEXANEMETHANOL; CYCLOHEXANE DERIVATIVE; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BIODEGRADATION; CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; MICROORGANISM; MINERALIZATION; ORGANIC COMPOUND; OXIC CONDITIONS; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; POLLUTION CONTROL; REACTION KINETICS; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SORPTION; WASTE TECHNOLOGY;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BACILLUS PUMILUS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION KINETICS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GENE SEQUENCE; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; MINERALIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA GENE; SEDIMENT; ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ANALYSIS; BIOREMEDIATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; RIVER; WATER POLLUTANT;

UNITED STATES; WEST VIRGINIA;

BACILLUS PUMILUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ANAEROBIOSIS; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CYCLOHEXANES; RIVERS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84953334040     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.12.144     Document Type: Article

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