Microbial degradation of a recalcitrant pesticide: chlordecone.

Microbial degradation of a recalcitrant pesticide: chlordecone.

Chlordecone (Kepone®) is a synthetic organochlorine insecticide (C10Cl10O) used worldwide mostly during the 1970s and 1980s. Its intensive application in the French West Indies to control the banana black weevil Cosmopolites sordidus led to a massive environmental pollution. Persistence of chlordeco...

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Main Authors: Sébastien Chaussonnerie, Pierre-Loic Saaidi, Edgardo Ugarte, Agnès Barbance, Aurélie Fossey, Valerie Barbe, Gabor Gyapay, Thomas Brüls, Marion Chevallier, Loic Couturat, Stéphanie Fouteau, Delphine Muselet, Emilie Pateau, Georges N Cohen, Nuria Fonknechten, Jean Weissenbach, Denis Le Paslier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
Chlordecone
Citrobacter
Metagenomics
Pesticides
Analytical Chemistry
GC-MS
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2016.02025/full

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