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Desulfitobacterium hafniense part of SERC Web Resource Collection
Web page highlingts the microbe Desulfitobacterium. Thess microbes can anaerobicaly dehalogenate both aromatic and alkyl chlorinated compounds. Compounds including chlorinated phenols, chlorinated ...Subject: Biology: Biology:Evolution:Bioinformatics, Biology:Biogeochemistry, Molecular Biology, Microbiology, Biology, Ecology:Metabolism
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Extreme Environments: Altered by Humans, Anoxic
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Extreme Environments: Altered by Humans, Anoxic
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Polaromonas strain JS666 part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This web page highlights the microbe Polaromonas strain JS666. The microbe was found to degrade trans-1,2-dichloroethene (tDCE), TCE, VC, 1,2-dichloroethane (1,2-DCA) and ETH in addition to coal tar; ...Subject: Biology: Biology:Evolution:Bioinformatics, Biology:Biogeochemistry, Molecular Biology, Microbiology, Biology, Ecology:Metabolism
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Extreme Environments: Altered by Humans
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Extreme Environments: Altered by Humans
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Geobacter metallireducens part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This web page features the microbe Geobacter metallireducens. The site briefly describes the ability of Geobacter metallireducens to gain energy through the dissimilatory reduction of iron, ...Subject: Biology: Biology:Molecular Biology, Microbiology, Biogeochemistry, Ecology:Metabolism
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Extreme Environments: Altered by Humans
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Extreme Environments: Altered by Humans
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Rhodobacter sphaeroides part of SERC Web Resource Collection
Web site highlights the photosynthetic microbe Rhodobacter sphaeroides. This microbe is known to detoxify a number of metal oxides and oxyanions. The site also describes other aspects of research on ...Subject: Biology: Biology:Biogeochemistry, Molecular Biology, Microbiology, Geoscience:Geology:Mineralogy:Biomineralogy, Biology:Ecology:Metabolism, Biofilms
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Extreme Environments: Altered by Humans
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Extreme Environments: Altered by Humans
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Ralstonia eutropha part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This site features Ralstonia eutropha, a Gram negative bacteria with the ability to degrade chloroaromatic compounds and chemically-related pollutants. The microbe is known for its potential for ...Subject: Biology: Biology:Microbiology, Ecology:Metabolism, Biology:Biogeochemistry
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Extreme Environments: Altered by Humans
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Extreme Environments: Altered by Humans
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Burkholderia cepacia R1808 part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This web page features the Burkholderia cepacia complex (Bcc). Comprised of at least nine closely related species, the Bcc is known for bioremediation and metabolic diversity. The site includes a ...Subject: Biology: Biology:Molecular Biology, Microbiology, Biogeochemistry, Ecology:Metabolism
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Extreme Environments: Altered by Humans
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Extreme Environments: Altered by Humans
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The Microbial Arsenic Cycle in Mono Lake, California part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This minireview summarizes the biogeochemical arsenic cycle in the alkaline, hypersaline Mono Lake. Some prokaryotes of the lake have evolved biochemical mechanisms to exploit arsenate and arsenite, ...Subject: Biology: Biology:Molecular Biology, Microbiology, Geoscience:Geology:Geochemistry:Oxidation/Reduction Reactions, Organic and Biochemistry, Biology:Ecology:Metabolism, Biology:Biogeochemistry
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Extreme Environments: Altered by Humans, Hypersaline, Alkaline
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Extreme Environments: Altered by Humans, Hypersaline, Alkaline
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Mopping up arsenic part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This Geotimes article focuses on arsenic and discusses the problem of ground water laden with arsenic compounds, and how remediation of these waters can be done using various methods including ...Subject: Biology: Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water:Geology of groundwater occurrence, Biology:Biogeochemistry, Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water:Water quality/chemistry , Contaminant hydrology, Geoscience:Geology:Geochemistry:Aqueous Solutions, Biology:Ecology:Metabolism, Biology:Microbiology
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Extreme Environments: Altered by Humans
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Extreme Environments: Altered by Humans
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Removal of Dibenzofuran, Dibenzo-p-Dioxin, and 2-Chlorodibenzo-p-Dioxin from Soils Inoculated with Sphingomonas sp. Strain RW1 part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This research abstract, available through Applied and Environmental Microbiology, reports that inoculation of a soil with the species Sphingomonas sp. strain RW1 resulted in the removal of the ...Subject: Biology: Geoscience:Geology:Geochemistry:Organic and Biochemistry, Biology:Microbiology, Ecology:Metabolism
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Extreme Environments: Altered by Humans
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Extreme Environments: Altered by Humans
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Garbage-eating Geobacter part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This Geotimes article highlights recent work done by Derek Lovley on the microbe Geobacter. The article discusses the ability of Geobacter to eat metal wastes as well as the prospect of using ...Subject: Biology: Biology:Ecology:Habitats:Marine, Biology:Microbiology, Geoscience:Geology:Geochemistry:Surface Chemistry, Environmental Science:Ecosystems:Biogeochemical cycling, Biology:Ecology:Metabolism, Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water:Contaminant hydrology
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Extreme Environments: Altered by Humans
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Extreme Environments: Altered by Humans
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