Isolation and characterization of two cryptic plasmids in the ammonia- oxidizing bacterium Nitrosomonas sp. strain ENI-11

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 181, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 3375-3381

  Yamagata, Akira ^a   Kato, Junichi ^a   Hirota, Ryuichi ^a   Kuroda, Akio ^a   Ikeda, Tsukasa ^a   Takiguchi, Noboru ^a   Ohtake, Hisao ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; AMMONIA FORMATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; GENE TRANSFER; NITROSOMONAS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; NITROSOMONAS; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; NITROSOMONAS SP.; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0033000354     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.181.11.3375-3381.1999     Document Type: Article

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