The distribution and relative abundance of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria in lakes of the McMurdo Dry Valley, Antarctica

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 401, Issue , 1999, Pages 113-130

  Voytek, M A ^a   Priscu, J C ^b   Ward, B B ^c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ammonia oxidizing bacteria; amoA; Antarctic lakes; Family and species specific PCR detection of nitrifying bacteria; Nitrification

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA MONOOXYGENASE; ANTARCTICA; DISTRIBUTION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN TRANSFORMATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBOSOMAL RNA;

AMMONIA; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; NITRIFYING BACTERIUM; NITROGEN CYCLE; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ANTARCTICA;

AMOA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NITROSOMONADALES; PROTEOBACTERIA; VANDA;

EID: 0033133478     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1003754830988     Document Type: Article

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