Anaerobic ammonium oxidation by anammox bacteria in the Black Sea

Nature

Volumn 422, Issue 6932, 2003, Pages 608-611

  Kuypers, Marcel M M ^a   Silekers, A Olav ^b   Lavik, Gaute ^a   Schmid, Markus ^b   Jøorgensen, Bo Barker ^a   Kuenen, J Gijs ^b   Sinninghe Damsté, Jaap S ^c   Strous, Marc ^d   Jetten, Mike S M ^d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; BACTERIA; BIOCONVERSION; BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; NITROGEN FIXATION;

OCEANIC REGIONS;

OCEAN ENGINEERING;

AMMONIA; BACTERIAL RNA; NITRATE; NITRITE; NITROGEN; RIBOSOME RNA;

AMMONIUM; ANAEROBIOSIS; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; NITRIFYING BACTERIUM; OCEAN BASIN; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS;

ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ANOXIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIOREACTOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENITRIFICATION; DIFFUSION; FLUORESCENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; HETEROTROPHY; LIPID MEMBRANE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NITROGEN AVAILABILITY; NITROGEN CYCLE; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA PROBE; SEA;

ANAEROBIOSIS; BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; NITRITES; NITROGEN; OCEANS AND SEAS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER;

BLACK SEA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PLANCTOMYCETALES;

EID: 0242515747     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01472     Document Type: Article

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