Community Structure of Denitrifiers, Bacteria, and Archaea along Redox Gradients in Pacific Northwest Marine Sediments by Terminal Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Analysis of Amplified Nitrite Reductase (nirS) and 16S rRNA Genes

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 1893-1901

  Braker, Gesche ^a   Ayala Del Río, Héctor L ^a   Devol, Allan H ^b   Fesefeldt, Andreas ^c   Tiedje, James M ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c Institute of Pathology   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRATE; NITRITE; NITRITE REDUCTASE; RNA 16S; SEA WATER;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RNA GENE; SEDIMENT; UNITED STATES;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; ECOSYSTEM; GENES, ARCHAEAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, RRNA; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRATES; NITRITE REDUCTASES; NITRITES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WASHINGTON;

EID: 0035319656     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.4.1893-1901.2001     Document Type: Article

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