Molecular diversity of denitrifying genes in continental margin sediments within the oxygen-deficient zone off the Pacific coast of Mexico

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 3549-3560

  Liu, Xueduan ^a,b   Tiquia, Sonia M ^a   Holguin, Gina ^a,f   Wu, Liyou ^a   Nold, Stephen C ^c   Devol, Allan H ^d   Luo, Kuan ^b   Palumbo, Anthony V ^a   Tiedje, James M ^e   Zhou, Jizhong ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b HUNAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN STOUT   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS DEL NOROESTE   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CLONING; GENES; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENTS;

MOLECULAR DIVERSITY;

MICROBIOLOGY;

NITRATE;

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DENITRIFICATION; MARINE SEDIMENT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS;

ACHROMOBACTER XYLOSOXIDANS; ALCALIGENES FAECALIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLORA; BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM; DENITRIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOGRAPHY; HYPOXIA; MEXICO; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PACIFIC OCEAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI; SEASHORE; SEDIMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

(NORTHEAST); PACIFIC OCEAN;

ACHROMOBACTER XYLOSOXIDANS; ALCALIGENES; ALCALIGENES FAECALIS; ALCALIGENES XYLOSOXIDANS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BLASTOBACTER DENITRIFICANS; BRADYRHIZOBIUM; BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM; NEGIBACTERIA; OTUS; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS SP.; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 0038654477     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.6.3549-3560.2003     Document Type: Article

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