Bioreactor microbial ecosystems for thiocyanate and cyanide degradation unravelled with genome-resolved metagenomics

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 4929-4941

  Kantor, Rose S ^a   van Zyl, A Wynand ^d   van Hille, Robert P ^d   Thomas, Brian C ^b   Harrison, Susan T L ^d   Banfield, Jillian F ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; CARBON; CYANIDE; NITROGEN; SULFUR; SULFUR DERIVATIVE; THIOCYANATE; THIOCYANIC ACID DERIVATIVE; WASTE WATER;

BACTERIUM; BIOREACTOR; BIOREMEDIATION; CHEMISTRY; DENITRIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MINING; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PROCEDURES; THIOBACILLUS; WASTE WATER; WATER MANAGEMENT;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOREACTORS; CARBON; CYANIDES; DENITRIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; METAGENOMICS; MINING; NITROGEN; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SULFUR; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; THIOBACILLUS; THIOCYANATES; WASTE WATER; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84955628366     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12936     Document Type: Article

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