Quantification of Hyphomicrobium populations in activated sludge from an industrial wastewater treatment system as determined by 16S rRNA analysis

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1167-1174

  Layton, A C ^a   Karanth, P N ^a   Lajoie, C A ^a,b   Meyers, A J ^c   Gregory, I R ^a   Stapleton, R D ^a   Taylor, D E ^c   Sayler, G S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

^c EASTMAN CHEMICAL COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; HYPHOMICROBIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; RNA ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; ECOSYSTEM; HYPHOMICROBIUM; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SEWAGE; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; HYPHOMICROBIUM; HYPHOMICROBIUM DENITRIFICANS; HYPHOMICROBIUM SP.; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0034054086     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.66.3.1167-1174.2000     Document Type: Article

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