Growth at low ammonium concentrations and starvation response as potential factors involved in niche differentiation among ammonia-oxidizing bacteria

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 68, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 4751-4757

  Bollmann, Annette ^a   Bär Gilissen, Marie José ^a   Laanbroek, Hendrikus J ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH KINETICS; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; SEDIMENTS;

STARVATION;

BACTERIA;

AMMONIA; DNA;

AMMONIUM; BACTERIUM; GROWTH RATE; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; STARVATION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; DIFFERENTIATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; NITROSOMONAS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STARVATION;

AMMONIA; BIOFILMS; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; NITROSOMONAS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; NITROSOMONADALES; NITROSOMONAS; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; NITROSOMONAS OLIGOTROPHA; OLIGOTROPHA;

EID: 0036794991     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.68.10.4751-4757.2002     Document Type: Article

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