Adaptation of aquatic microbial communities to pollutant stress.
- 1 June 1988
- journal article
- review article
- Vol. 5 (6) , 165-9
Abstract
The importance of microbial adaptation in the removal of environmental pollutants and in maintaining active microbial communities in impacted ecosystems is discussed using the biodegradation of p-nitrophenol and the volatilization of mercuric mercury as examples. A molecular mechanism of adaptation is suggested by enrichment of mercury resistance (mer) genes in some communities upon exposure to mercury.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: