Ammonia-oxidizing bacteria: A model for molecular microbial ecology

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue , 2001, Pages 485-529

  Kowalchuk, G A ^a   Stephen, J R ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

subclass Proteobacteria; Ammonia oxidation; Nitrification; Nitrosomonas; Nitrosospira

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM EXAMINATION; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; EUTROPHICATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MODEL; NITRATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEUS; REVIEW;

AMMONIA; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; GRAM-NEGATIVE CHEMOLITHOTROPHIC BACTERIA; NITROBACTER; NITROSOMONAS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NITROSOMONADALES; NITROSOMONAS; NITROSOSPIRA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 0034775280     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.55.1.485     Document Type: Review

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