Characterization of a nitrate-respiring bacterial community using the nitrate reductase gene (narG) as a functional marker

Microbiology

Volumn 149, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 229-237

  Gregory, Lisa G ^a,b   Bond, Philip L ^a   Richardson, David J ^a   Spiro, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; CYTOSINE; GUANINE; MEMBRANE ENZYME; NITRATE; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRITE; PRIMER RNA; RNA 16S; SULFATE;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENITRIFICATION; DNA EXTRACTION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CODE; GENUS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NITRATE METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; REDUCTION; REVIEW; RNA DEGRADATION; SEDIMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIUM; TAXONOMY;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECOSYSTEM; FRESH WATER; GENES, RRNA; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRATE REDUCTASES; NITRATES; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FIRMICUTES; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PROTEOBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

EID: 0037259086     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.25849-0     Document Type: Review

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