Microscale distribution of populations and activities of Nitrosospira and Nitrospira spp. along a macroscale gradient in a nitrifying bioreactor: Quantification by in situ hybridization and the use of microsensors

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 3690-3696

  Schramm, Andreas ^a   De Beer, Dirk ^a   Van Den Heuvel, Johan C ^b   Ottengraf, Simon ^b   Amann, Rudolf ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; NITRATE; NITRITE; WATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM; BIOREACTOR; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NITRIFICATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION;

NITROSOSPIRA; NITROSPIRA;

EID: 0032812283     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.8.3690-3696.1999     Document Type: Article

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