Stable-isotope analysis of a combined nitrification-denitrification sustained by thermophilic methanotrophs under low-oxygen conditions

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 474-481

  Pel, Roel ^a,b   Oldenhuis, Roelof ^a   Brand, Willi ^c   Vos, An ^a   Gottschal, Jan C ^d   Zwart, Kor B ^a  

^a Soil Fertility Research   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^c Finnigan MAT GmbH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CARBON; CARBON 13; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBONIC ACID; FATTY ACID; ISOTOPE; NITRATE; NITROGEN; NITROGEN 15; OXYGEN; PHOSPHOLIPID;

ARTICLE; COMBUSTION; COMPOSTING; DECOMPOSITION; DENITRIFICATION; ISOTOPE LABELING; METHANOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; NITRIFICATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; OXYGEN TENSION; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); METHYLOCOCCUS; MICROBIOTA;

EID: 0030952235     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.2.474-481.1997     Document Type: Article

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