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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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Exploring the Metabolic and Genetic Control of Gene Expression on a Genomic Scale

TL;DR: DNA microarrays containing virtually every gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae were used to carry out a comprehensive investigation of the temporal program of gene expression accompanying the metabolic shift from fermentation to respiration, and the expression patterns of many previously uncharacterized genes provided clues to their possible functions.
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A Molecular View of Microbial Diversity and the Biosphere

TL;DR: Over three decades of molecular-phylogenetic studies, researchers have compiled an increasingly robust map of evolutionary diversification showing that the main diversity of life is microbial, distributed among three primary relatedness groups or domains: Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya.
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Characterization of microbial diversity by determining terminal restriction fragment length polymorphisms of genes encoding 16S rRNA.

TL;DR: Computer-simulated analysis of terminal restriction fragment length polymorphisms (T-RFLP) for 1,002 eubacterial sequences showed that with proper selection of PCR primers and restriction enzymes, 686 sequences could be PCR amplified and classified into 233 unique terminal restriction fragments lengths or "ribotypes."
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Kinetic PCR Analysis: Real-time Monitoring of DNA Amplification Reactions

TL;DR: Results obtained with this approach indicate that a kinetic approach to PCR analysis can quantitate DNA sensitively, selectively and over a large dynamic range.
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Metagenomics: Application of Genomics to Uncultured Microorganisms

TL;DR: Reassembly of multiple genomes has provided insight into energy and nutrient cycling within the community, genome structure, gene function, population genetics and microheterogeneity, and lateral gene transfer among members of an uncultured community.
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