Molecular analysis of bacterial communities in a three-compartment granular activated sludge system indicates community-level control by incompatible nitrification processes

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 2528-2532

  Holben, William E ^a   Noto, Kazuhiko ^b   Sumino, Tatsuo ^b   Suwa, Yuichi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; HYDROXYLAMINE; UNSPECIFIC MONOOXYGENASE;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; DENITRIFICATION; EUTROPHICATION; NITROSOMONAS; NONHUMAN; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; NITROSOMONAS; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA;

EID: 0031840828     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.7.2528-2532.1998     Document Type: Article

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