Structure and activity of multiple nitrifying bacterial populations co-existing in a biofilm

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 355-369

  Gieseke, Armin ^a   Bjerrum, Lotte ^b,c   Wagner, Michael ^b   Amann, Rudolf ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; BIOFILMS; BIOREACTORS; CHROMATIACEAE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRATES; NITRITES; NITROBACTER; NITROSOMONAS; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; OXYGEN; PILOT PROJECTS; SEWAGE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NITROBACTER; NITROSOCOCCUS; NITROSOCOCCUS MOBILIS; NITROSOMONADALES; NITROSPIRA; OLIGOTROPHA;

EID: 0038062821     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-2920.2003.00423.x     Document Type: Article

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