Combined molecular and conventional analyses of nitrifying bacterium diversity in activated sludge: Nitrosococcus mobilis and Nitrospira-like bacteria as dominant populations

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 3042-3051

  Juretschko, Stefan ^a   Timmermann, Gabriele ^b   Schmid, Markus ^a   Schleifer, Karl Heinz ^a   Pommerening Röser, Andreas ^c   Koops, Hans Peter ^c   Wagner, Michael ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CLONING; DNA; DNA SEQUENCES; ENZYMES; GENES; RNA; SEWAGE BACTERIOLOGY; SEWAGE SLUDGE;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; AMMONIA MONOOXYGENASE; CLONE SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENT IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE ENCODING; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NITROSOCOCCUS MOBILIS; NITROSPIRA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ECOLOGY;

AMMONIA; UNSPECIFIC MONOOXYGENASE;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NITRIFYING BACTERIUM;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ARTICLE; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA LIBRARY; DNA PROBE; DNA SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NITRIFICATION; NITROSOMONAS; SEWAGE TREATMENT;

AMOA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; NITROBACTER; NITROBACTER WINOGRADSKYI; NITROSOCOCCUS; NITROSOCOCCUS MOBILIS; NITROSOMONADALES; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; NITROSPIRA;

EID: 0032147190     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.8.3042-3051.1998     Document Type: Article

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