Effects of diurnal temperature variation on microbial community and petroleum hydrocarbon biodegradation in contaminated soils from a sub-Arctic site

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 4916-4928

  Akbari, Ali ^a   Ghoshal, Subhasis ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; HYDROCARBON; MIXED FUNCTION OXIDASE; PETROLEUM; RNA 16S; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANT;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC; BIOREMEDIATION; CHEMISTRY; COLD; DNA SEQUENCE; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; MICROBIOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANT;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; ARCTIC REGIONS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; COLD TEMPERATURE; DNA, BACTERIAL; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; HYDROCARBONS; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; MIXED FUNCTION OXYGENASES; PETROLEUM; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEASONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

EID: 84955745892     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12846     Document Type: Article

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