Baltic Sea cyanobacterial bloom contains denitrification and nitrification genes, but has negligible denitrification activity

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 83-96

  Tuomainen, Jaana M ^a,b,c   Hietanen, Susanna ^a,d   Kuparinen, Jorma ^a,d   Martikainen, Pertti J ^c   Servomaa, Kristina ^b,c  

^a FINNISH INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Finland)

^b Finland's Environmental Administration   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Ammonia monooxygenase; Baltic Sea; Cyanobacterial bloom; Denitrification; Nitrification; Nitrite reductase; Nitrous oxide

Indexed keywords

CARBON; ISOTOPE; NITRITE REDUCTASE; NITROGEN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN AMOA; PROTEIN NIRK; PROTEIN NIRS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGGREGATE; ALGAL BLOOM; CYANOBACTERIUM; DENITRIFICATION; NITRIFICATION;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BALTIC SEA; CYANOBACTERIUM; DENITRIFICATION; ENVIRONMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CODE; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN FIXATION; NITROSOSPIRA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; SAMPLING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECIES COMPARISON; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

BALTIC SEA; GULF OF FINLAND;

AMOA; CYANOBACTERIA; NITROSOSPIRA;

EID: 0038784809     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-6496(03)00131-4     Document Type: Article

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