Community analysis of ammonia-oxidising bacteria, in relation to oxygen availability in soils and root-oxygenated sediments, using PCR, DGGE and oligonucleotide probe hybridisation

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 339-350

  Kowalchuk, George A ^a   Bodelier, Paul L E ^a   Hans J Heilig, G ^a   Stephen, John R ^b   Laanbroek, Hendrikus J ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Diversity; Nitrification; Nitrosomonas; Nitrosospira; Oxygen limitation

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; OXYGEN; RIBOSOME DNA;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; LAKE; NITRIFICATION; NITROSOMONAS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; OXIDATION; PLANT ROOT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOSPHERE; SAMPLING; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOIL;

NITROSOSPIRA;

EID: 0032436805     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-6496(98)00082-8     Document Type: Article

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