Nucleotide sequence of the nifH gene coding for nitrogen reductase in the acetic acid bacterium Acetobacter diazotrophicus

Letters in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 12-16

  Franke, I H ^a   Fegan, M ^a   Hayward, A C ^a   Sly, L I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENES; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FIXATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; RNA;

16S RRNA GENE SEQUENCE; ACETIC ACID BACTERIA; AZOSPIRILLUM BRASILENSE; GENE CODING; GENE SEQUENCES; NIFH GENES; NITROGEN FIXING BACTERIA; NUCLEOTIDES SEQUENCES; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PRIMERS; PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS;

POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

OXIDOREDUCTASE; RIBOSOME RNA;

ACETOBACTER; ARTICLE; AZOSPIRILLUM BRASILENSE; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ACETOBACTER; AZOSPIRILLUM BRASILENSE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GLUCONACETOBACTER DIAZOTROPHICUS; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0031932039     PISSN: 02668254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1472-765X.1998.00258.x     Document Type: Article

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