Phylogenetic evidence for the existence of novel thermophilic bacteria in hot spring sulfur-turf microbial mats in Japan
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Cloning and sequencing of the genes coding for the 16S ribosomal RNA were undertaken to determine the phylogenetic positions of sausage-shaped bacteria found in sulfur-turf microbial mats in sulphide-containing hot springs in Japan. Phylogenetic analysis revealed a relationship between these bacteria and the Aquifex-Hydrogenobacter complex. The bacteria found in the sulfur-turf mats belongs to a clade different from the other members of the Aquifex-Hydrogenobacter complex.
Publication Name: Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 0099-2240
Year: 1998
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Phylogenetic characterization of a polychlorinated-dioxin-dechlorinating microbial community by use of microcosm studies
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A microbial community capable of dechlorinating polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins/dibenzofurans (PCDD/Fs) was studied by using laboratory scale microcosms. It suggests that the complete dechlorination of PCDD/Fs found in the microcosm was due to a combination of the dechlorinating activity of the 'Dehalococcoides'-like organisms and the oxidative degradation of the dechlorinated products by aerobic bacteria with aromatic hydrocarbon dioxygenases.
Publication Name: Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 0099-2240
Year: 2005
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Molecular analysis of arsenate-reducing bacteria within Cambodian sediments following amendment with acetate
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A suite of molecular techniques were used to identify As(V)-respiring bacteria and their corresponding respiratory As(V) reductase genes in sediments collected from a Cambodian aquifer with elevated aqueous arsenic concentrations. The results identified a direct link between inputs of carbon and the increased prevalence of organisms which actively convert As(V) to the potentially more mobile As(III).
Publication Name: Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 0099-2240
Year: 2007
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