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Diversity and abundance of arsenic methylating microorganisms in high arsenic groundwater from Hetao Plain of Inner Mongolia, China.
Ecotoxicology (London, England) - 1 Oct 2018
Wang Yanhong, Li Ping, Jiang Zhou, Liu Han, Wei Dazhun, Wang Helin, Wang Yanxin
Abstract excerpt
Arsenic methylation is regarded as an effective way of arsenic detoxification. Current knowledge about arsenic biomethylation in high arsenic groundwater remains limited. In the present study, 16 high arsenic groundwater samples from deep wells of the Hetao Plain were investigated using clone library and quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) analyses of arsM genes as well as geochemical analysis. The...
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