Detection and diversity of expressed denitrification genes in estuarine sediments after reverse transcription-PCR amplification from mRNA

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 68, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 5017-5025

  Nogales, Balbina ^a   Timmis, Kenneth N ^a   Nedwell, David B ^a   Osborn, A Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLONING; DENITRIFICATION; DNA; ENZYMES; ESTUARIES; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; RNA; SEDIMENTS;

GENE SEQUENCES;

GENES;

DNA; MESSENGER RNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; RNA 16S;

DENITRIFICATION; ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ARTICLE; DENITRIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESTUARY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OCHROBACTRUM ANTHROPI; PARACOCCUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEDIMENT;

BACTERIA; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; NITRITE REDUCTASES; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEAWATER; VARIATION (GENETICS);

UNITED KINGDOM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; OCHROBACTRUM; OCHROBACTRUM ANTHROPI;

EID: 0036793715     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.68.10.5017-5025.2002     Document Type: Article

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