Diversity and composition of sulfate-reducing microbial communities based on genomic DNA and RNA transcription in production water of high temperature and corrosive oil reservoir

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 8, Issue JUN, 2017, Pages

  Li, Xiao Xiao ^a   Liu, Jin Feng ^a   Zhou, Lei ^a   Mbadinga, Serge M ^a,b   Yang, Shi Zhong ^a   Gu, Ji Dong ^c   Mu, Bo Zhong ^a,b  

^a EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI COLLABORATIVE INNOVATION CENTER FOR BIOMANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

aprA; dsrA; RT qPCR; Subsurface petroleum reservoirs; Sulfate reducing microorganisms (SRM)

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ARCHAEOGLOBUS; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESULFOVIBRIO; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SYNTHESIS; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GEOCHEMISTRY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; ION CHROMATOGRAPHY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OIL FIELD; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIUM; THERMODESULFORHABDUS; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

EID: 85020432071     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.01011     Document Type: Article

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