The soluble methane monooxygenase gene cluster of the trichloroethylene- degrading methanotroph Methylocystis sp. strain M

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1898-1904

  Mcdonald, I R ^a   Uchiyama, H ^b   Kambe, S ^b   Yagi, O ^b   Murrell, J C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHANE; RNA 16S; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; UNSPECIFIC MONOOXYGENASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIODEGRADATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; METHANOBACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; RNA GENE;

EID: 0030986084     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.5.1898-1904.1997     Document Type: Article

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