The ammonia monooxygenase structural gene amoa as a functional marker: Molecular fine-scale analysis of natural ammonia-oxidizing populations

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 4704-4712

  Rotthauwe, Jan Henrich ^a   Witzel, Karl Paul ^b   Liesack, Werner ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CELL MARKER; METHANE; UNSPECIFIC MONOOXYGENASE;

AQUATIC FAUNA; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; OXIDATION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICE;

AMOA; NITROSOMONAS; NITROSOSPIRA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 0030814870     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.12.4704-4712.1997     Document Type: Article

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