Molecular evidence for genus level diversity of bacteria capable of catalyzing anaerobic ammonium oxidation

Systematic and Applied Microbiology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 93-106

  Schmid, Markus ^a   Twachtmann, Ulf ^c   Klein, Michael ^a   Strous, Marc ^b   Juretschko, Stekan ^a   Jetten, Mike ^b   Metzger, Jörg W ^c   Schleifer, Karl Heinz ^a   Wagner, Michael ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Anaerobic ammonium oxidation; Beta subclass ammonia oxidizers; Biofilm; Diversity of Planctomycetales; Nitrogen removal; Quantitative fluorescence in situ hybridization; Trickling filter

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S; UNSPECIFIC MONOOXYGENASE;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIOFILM; DNA PROBE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION; PHYLOGENY; PLANCTOMYCETALES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMOA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDATUS; CANDIDATUS KUENENIA STUTTGARTIENSIS; KUENENIA; KUENENIA STUTTGARTIENSIS; NITROSOMONADALES; PLANCTOMYCETALES; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 0034096495     PISSN: 07232020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0723-2020(00)80050-8     Document Type: Article

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