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Title: Mercury-Resistant Marine Bacteria and their Role in Bioremediation of Certain Toxicants
Authors: De, J.
Guides: Ramaiah, N.
Citation: Ph.D. thesis, Goa University, Goa, India; 232pp
Issue Date: 2004
Abstract: The primary objective of this study was to isolate and enumerate mercury-resistant bacteria and to compare their occurrence and distribution spatially and temporally along the Indian coasts. As coastal waters experience adverse effects of a variety of toxic chemicals and salt concentration that may play a role in resistance mechanism in mercury-resistant marine bacteria, investigations were carried out to see whether marine MRB have different ways to deal with toxic mercury and to examine their genetic make-up. The hypothesis put forth for this study that bacterial strains capable of Hg resistance can also tolerate, detoxify or biotransform a variety of other toxicants was examined. Experiments were carried out to understand the potential of a select set of MRB to tolerate and/or biotransform polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), tri-butyl tin (TBT), mercury, cadmium and lead to validate this hypothesis.
Document type: Thesis
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2264/88
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Chap1.pdfIntroduction1.27 MBAdobe PDFView/Open
Chap2-3.pdfDistribution & Biochemical1.54 MBAdobe PDFView/Open
Chap4.pdfMolecular characterization1.62 MBAdobe PDFView/Open
Chap5.pdfDetoxification1.3 MBAdobe PDFView/Open
Chap6-7.pdfBiodegradation & Bioremediation824.59 kBAdobe PDFView/Open
References.pdfSummary227.32 kBAdobe PDFView/Open

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