Ammonia-oxidizing bacteria along meadow-to-forest transects in the Oregon cascade mountains

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 3129-3136

  Mintie, A T ^a   Heichen, R S ^a   Cromack Jr , K ^a   Myrold, D D ^a   Bottomley, P J ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLONING; DNA; NITRIFICATION; SOILS;

MINERALIZATION;

BACTERIA;

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOTONE; FOREST SOIL; MEADOW; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MINERALIZATION; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN;

ARTICLE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; FOREST SOIL; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MINERALIZATION; NITRIFICATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHASE TRANSITION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; VEGETATION;

CASCADE MOUNTAINS; OREGON; UNITED STATES;

NITROSOMONADALES; NITROSOSPIRA; NITROSOSPIRA BRIENSIS; NITROSOSPIRA SP.;

EID: 0038656384     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.6.3129-3136.2003     Document Type: Article

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