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from alpine permafrost in the Tianshan Mountains, northwestern China. Res Microbiol
157:741–751
Bakermans C, Madsen E (2002) Detection in coal tar waste-contaminated groundwater of mRNA
transcripts related to naphthalene dioxygenase by fluorescent in situ hybridizationwith tyramide
signal amplification. J Microbiol Methods 50:75–84
Bordenave S, Fourcans A, Blanchard S, Goni MS, Caumette P, Duran R (2004) Structure and
functional analyses of bacterial communities changes in microbial mats following petroleum
exposure. Ophelia 58:195–203
Borneman J, Triplett EC (1997) Molecular microbial diversity in soils from eastern Amazonia:
evidence for unusual microorganisms and microbial population shifts associated with deforestation. Appl Environ Microbiol 63(7):2647–2653
Brandt KK, Frandsen RJN, Holm PE, Nybroe O (2010) Development of pollution-induced community tolerance is linked to structural and functional resilience of a soil bacterial community
following a five-year field exposure to copper. Soil Biol Biochem 42:748–757
Bro C, Nielsen J (2004) Impact of ‘ome’ analyses on inverse metabolic engineering. Metab Eng
6:204–211
Cebron A, Beguiristain T, Leyval C, Norini M (2008) Real-time PCR quantification of PAH-ring
hydroxylating dioxygenase (PAH-RHD alpha) genes from gram-positive and gram-negative
bacteria in soil and sediment samples. J Microbiol Methods 73:148–159
Chang YJ, Stephen JR, Richter AP, Venosa AD, Bruggemann J, Macnaughton SJ (2000) Phylogenetic analysis of aerobic freshwater and marine enrichment cultures efficient in hydrocarbon
degradation: effect of profiling method. J Microbiol Methods 40:19–31
Chang Y, Hung C, His C (2014) Effects of polyethoxylate lauryl ether (Brij 35) addition on
phenanthrene biodegradation in a soil/water system. J Environ Sci Health A Tox Hazard
Subst Environ Eng 49:1672–1684
Chauvel B, Guillemin JP, Gazquez J, Gauvrit C (2012) History of chemical weeding from 1944 to
2011 in France: changes and evolution of herbicide molecule. Crop Prot 42:320–326
Chikere BO (2000) The impact of Eleme petrochemical effluents on the microbial ecology of Eleme
River. Ph.D. Thesis. Microbiology Department, University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State,
Nigeria
Chikere CB, Ughala E (2011) Preliminary screening of hydrocarbon utilizing bacteria habouring
plasmids. TWOWS Africa Int J Sci Technol 202:26–36
Chikere CB, Okpokwasili GC, Chikere BO (2011a) Monitoring of microbial hydrocarbon remediation in the soil. Biotechology 1(3):117–138
Chikere CB, Surridge KJ, Cloete TE, Okpokwasili GC (2011b) Phylogenetic diversity of dominant
bacterial communities during bioremediation of crude oil-polluted soil. Revis Ambi Agua 6
(2):61–76
Childers SE, Ciufo S, Lovley DR (2002) Geobacter metallireducens accesses Fe(III) oxide by
chemotaxis. Nature 416:767–769
Cho JC, Tiedje JM (2001) Bacterial species determination from DNA–DNA hybridization by using
genome fragments and DNA microarrays. Appl Environ Microbiol 67:3677–3682
Cho JC, Tiedje JM (2002) Quantitative detection of microbial genes by using DNA microarrays.
Appl Environ Microbiol 68:1425–1430
Clegg CD, Ritz K, Griffiths BS (2000) %G + C profiling and cross hybridisation of microbial DNA
reveals great variation in below-ground community structure in UK upland grasslands. Appl
Soil Ecol 14:125–134
Collins G, Kavanagh S, McHugh S, Connaughton S, Kearney A, Rice O (2006) Accessing the black
box of microbial diversity and ecophysiology: recent advances through polyphasic experiments.
J Environ Sci Health A Tox Hazard Subst Environ Eng 41:897–922
Cordova-Kreylos AL, Cao Y, Green PG, Hwang H-M, Kuivila KM, LaMontagne MG, Van De
Werfhorst LC, Holden PA, Scow KM (2006) Diversity, composition, and geographical distribution of microbial communities in California salt marsh sediments. Appl Environ Microbiol
72:3357–3366
466
S. K. Shekhar et al.