Isolation and characterization of a novel facultatively alkaliphilic Nitrobacter species, N. alkalicus sp. nov.

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 170, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 345-352

  Sorokin, Dimitry Y ^a   Muyzer, Gerard ^b   Brinkhoff, Thorsten ^b   Kuenen, J Gijs ^c   Jetten, Mike S M ^c  

^a RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alkaline environments; Continuous culture; Nitrite oxidizing bacteria; Nitrobacter; pH

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME A; NITRITE; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; NITROBACTER; NITROBACTER ALKALICUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION; PH; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALKALIES; BASE SEQUENCE; CYTOCHROMES; DNA, BACTERIAL; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRATES; NITROBACTER; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; NITROBACTER ALKALICUS; NITROBACTER WINOGRADSKYI;

EID: 0031670308     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002030050652     Document Type: Article

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