Diversity and distribution of DNA sequences with affinity to ammonia- oxidizing bacteria of the β subdivision of the class proteobacteria in the arctic ocean

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1960-1969

  Bano, Nasreen ^a   Hollibaugh, James T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; DNA; NUCLEOTIDE; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEA;

AMMONIA; ARCTIC REGIONS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEOBACTERIA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEASONS; SEAWATER; VARIATION (GENETICS);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NITROSOMONADALES; NITROSOMONAS; NITROSOSPIRA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 0034016750     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.66.5.1960-1969.2000     Document Type: Article

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