The Isotope Array, a New Tool that Employs Substrate-Mediated Labeling of rRNA for Determination of Microbial Community Structure and Function

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 6875-6887

  Adamczyk, Justyna ^a   Hesselsoe, Martin ^c   Iversen, Niels ^c   Horn, Matthias ^d   Lehner, Angelika ^a   Nielsen, Per Halkjaer ^c   Schloter, Michael ^b   Roslev, Peter ^c   Wagner, Michael ^d  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS; AMMONIA; CARBON DIOXIDE; FLUORESCENCE; ISOTOPES; MICROORGANISMS; RADIOACTIVITY; RNA;

MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ALLYLTHIOUREA; AMMONIA; BICARBONATE; CARBON 14; OXYGEN; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA; THIOUREA DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; AMMONIA FORMATION; AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIUM; AMOA GENE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CARBON DIOXIDE FIXATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DNA MICROARRAY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; ISOTOPE ARRAY; ISOTOPE LABELING; MICROAUTORADIOGRAPHY; MICROFLORA; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; NITRIFICATION; NITROSOMONAS; NITROSOMONAS EUTROPHA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; OXIDATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOACTIVITY; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA HYBRIDIZATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL DETECTION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

AMMONIA; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BACTERIA; BICARBONATES; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECOSYSTEM; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROSOMONAS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEWAGE; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NITROSOMONADALES; NITROSOMONAS; NITROSOMONAS EUTROPHA;

EID: 0242573148     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.11.6875-6887.2003     Document Type: Article

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