Natural Bacterial Communities Serve as Quantitative Geochemical Biosensors

ABSTRACT Biological sensors can be engineered to measure a wide range of environmental conditions. Here we show that statistical analysis of DNA from natural microbial communities can be used to accurately identify environmental contaminants, including uranium and nitrate at a nuclear waste site. In...

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Autores principales: Mark B. Smith, Andrea M. Rocha, Chris S. Smillie, Scott W. Olesen, Charles Paradis, Liyou Wu, James H. Campbell, Julian L. Fortney, Tonia L. Mehlhorn, Kenneth A. Lowe, Jennifer E. Earles, Jana Phillips, Steve M. Techtmann, Dominique C. Joyner, Dwayne A. Elias, Kathryn L. Bailey, Richard A. Hurt, Sarah P. Preheim, Matthew C. Sanders, Joy Yang, Marcella A. Mueller, Scott Brooks, David B. Watson, Ping Zhang, Zhili He, Eric A. Dubinsky, Paul D. Adams, Adam P. Arkin, Matthew W. Fields, Jizhong Zhou, Eric J. Alm, Terry C. Hazen
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Publicado: American Society for Microbiology 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/4b02cc1268144fdeaa7e013b81f7576d
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