Community structure of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria within anoxic marine sediments

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1359-1371

  Freitag, Thomas E ^a   Prosser, James I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; DNA; ELECTROPHORESIS; MANGANESE; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN OXIDES; OXIDATION; REDUCTION; RNA; SEDIMENTS;

MARINE SEDIMENTS;

BACTERIOLOGY;

AMMONIA; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; DNA 16S; OXYGEN; PRIMER RNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

AMMONIA; BACTERIUM; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; MARINE SEDIMENT; OXIDATION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHROMOSOME HIGH RESOLUTION BANDING ANALYSIS; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MICROFLORA; NITROSOMONAS; NITROSOSPIRA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION; PHYLOGENY; PLANCTOMYCETALES; PLANKTON; RNA ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SEDIMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VERRUCOMICROBIA; WATER SAMPLING;

AMMONIA; ANAEROBIOSIS; BACTERIA; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECOSYSTEM; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

UNITED KINGDOM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; NITROSOMONADALES; NITROSOMONAS; NITROSOSPIRA; PLANCTOMYCETALES; PLANCTOMYCETES; PROTEOBACTERIA; VERRUCOMICROBIA;

EID: 0037335946     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.3.1359-1371.2003     Document Type: Article

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