Enrichment, phylogenetic analysis and detection of a bacterium that performs enhanced biological phosphate removal in activated sludge

Systematic and Applied Microbiology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 454-465

  Hesselmann, Rolf P X ^a   Werlen, Christoph ^a   Hahn, Dittmar ^b   Van Der Meer, Jan Roelof ^a   Zehnder, Alexander J B ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b EAWAG ^*

Author keywords

Activated sludge; EBPR; In situ hybridization; Probes; Rhodocyclus; rRNA

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; CARBON; PHOSPHATE; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; AEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLONE; DOT HYBRIDIZATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE;

ACCUMULIBACTER PHOSPHATIS; CANDIDATUS; RHODOCYCLUS;

EID: 0032822623     PISSN: 07232020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0723-2020(99)80055-1     Document Type: Article

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