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The use of molecular techniques to characterize the microbial communities in contaminated soil and water

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This review examines the current application of molecular techniques for the characterization of microbial communities in contaminated soil and water and methods that directly link microbial phylogeny to its ecological function at contaminated sites as well as high throughput methods for complex microbial community studies.
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This article is published in Environment International.The article was published on 2008-02-01. It has received 204 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Microbial population biology & Bioremediation.

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Bioremediation approaches for organic pollutants: a critical perspective

TL;DR: This review selectively examines and provides a critical view on the knowledge gaps and limitations in field application strategies, approaches such as composting, electrobioremediation and microbe-assisted phytoremediating, and the use of probes and assays for monitoring and testing the efficacy of bioremediations of polluted sites.
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Diagnosis of soil contamination using microbiological indices: A review on heavy metal pollution.

TL;DR: The changes of different microbiological indices and the mechanism of microbial response to heavy metal stress in soils are comprehensively summarized and future directions of the microbial ecotoxicological diagnosis of soil contamination by heavy metals are proposed and discussed.
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Monitoring of microbial hydrocarbon remediation in the soil.

TL;DR: Microbial methods for monitoring bioremediation of hydrocarbons include chemical, biochemical and microbiological molecular indices that measure rates of microbial activities to show that in the end the target goal of pollutant reduction to a safe and permissible level has been achieved.
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Nanoliter multiplex PCR arrays on a SlipChip

TL;DR: The SlipChip will be useful for applications involving PCR arrays and lays the foundation for new strategies for diagnostics, point-of-care devices, and immobilization-based arrays.
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Molecular techniques in wastewater: Understanding microbial communities, detecting pathogens, and real-time process control.

TL;DR: The current and emerging molecular approaches for characterizing microbial community composition and structure in wastewater processes are reviewed and the ability to automate a detection/identification system is discussed.
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Molecular Characterization of Bacterial Populations in Petroleum-Contaminated Groundwater Discharged from Underground Crude Oil Storage Cavities

TL;DR: The results indicate that the novel members of the epsilon subclass of the Proteobacteria grow as major populations in the petroleum-contaminated cavity groundwater.
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Quantitative Detection of Microbial Genes by Using DNA Microarrays

TL;DR: This approach for designing quantitative microarrays and the inferred equation from this study provide a simple and convenient way to estimate the target gene concentration from the hybridization signal ratio.
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RNA-based stable isotope probing and isolation of anaerobic benzene-degrading bacteria from gasoline-contaminated groundwater.

TL;DR: Results indicate that the Azoarcus population was involved in benzene degradation in the gasoline-contaminated groundwater under denitrifying conditions and suggest that RNA-based SIP identification coupled to phylogenetic screening of nonselective isolates facilitates the isolation of enrichment/isolation-resistant microorganisms with a specific function.
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Linking microbial community structure with function: fluorescence in situ hybridization-microautoradiography and isotope arrays.

TL;DR: The scope of FISH-MAR was extended by rendering it quantitative and by combining it with microelectrode measurements or stable isotope probing, and isotope arrays have also been developed that exploit the parallel detection offered by DNA microarrays to measure incorporation of labelled substrate into the rRNA of many community members in a single experiment.
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