Phylogenetic differences between particle-associated and planktonic ammonia-oxidizing bacteria of the β subdivision of the class Proteobacteria in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 779-786

  Phillips, Carol J ^a   Smith, Zena ^a   Embley, T Martin ^b   Prosser, James I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; NITROGEN; RNA 16S;

AMMONIA; BACTERIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHYLOGENETICS; PLANKTON;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; NITRIFICATION; NITROSOMONAS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLANKTON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEOBACTERIA; RNA GENE;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; NEGIBACTERIA; NITROSOMONADALES; NITROSOMONAS; NITROSOMONAS EUTROPHA; NITROSOSPIRA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 0032975677     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.2.779-786.1999     Document Type: Article

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