Diversity and Detection of Nitrate Assimilation Genes in Marine Bacteria

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 3-12, 2001, Pages 5343-5348

  Allen, Andrew E ^a,b   Booth, Melissa G ^b   Frischer, Marc E ^b,e   Verity, Peter G ^b   Zehr, Jonathan P ^c   Zani, Sabino ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b Skidaway Institute of Oceangraphy   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e SKIDAWAY INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; NASA;

BACTERIAL DNA; NITRATE; NITRATE REDUCTASE; PRIMER DNA; RNA 16S; SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BACTERIA; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRATE REDUCTASES; NITRATES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0035516027     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.67.11.5343-5348.2001     Document Type: Article

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