Diversity of nitrous oxide reductase (nosZ) genes in continental shelf sediments

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1681-1687

  Scala, David J ^a   Kerkhof, Lee J ^a,b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROUS OXIDE REDUCTASE;

ACHROMOBACTER; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM; DENITRIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARACOCCUS DENITRIFICANS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI; SEA; SEDIMENT; WAUTERSIA EUTROPHA;

ACHROMOBACTER; BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM; NEGIBACTERIA; PARACOCCUS DENITRIFICANS; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI; RALSTONIA; RHIZOBIUM; WAUTERSIA EUTROPHA;

EID: 0032933229     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.4.1681-1687.1999     Document Type: Article

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