Determination of Nitrogen-Fixing Phylotypes in Lyngbya sp. and Microcoleus chthonoplastes Cyanobacterial Mats from Guerrero Negro, Baja California, Mexico

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 2119-2128

  Omoregie, Enoma O ^a   Crumbliss, Lori L ^a   Bebout, Brad M ^b   Zehr, Jonathan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENZYME KINETICS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MICROORGANISMS; NITROGEN FIXATION;

CYANOBACTERIA; PHYLOTYPES;

MICROBIOLOGY;

NITROGENASE;

NITROGEN FIXATION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; DARKNESS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GREENHOUSE; HALOTHECE; LYNGBYA; MEXICO; MICROCOLEUS CHTHONOPLASTES; MICROHABITAT; MYXOSARCINA; NIFH GENE; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHORMIDIUM; PHYLOGENY; PLECTONEMA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYNECHOCYSTIS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

BASE SEQUENCE; CYANOBACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, BACTERIAL; MEXICO; NITROGEN FIXATION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; HALOTHECE; LYNGBYA; MICROCOLEUS; MICROCOLEUS CHTHONOPLASTES; MYXOSARCINA; NEGIBACTERIA; PHORMIDIUM; PLECTONEMA; SYNECHOCYSTIS;

EID: 16544367691     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.4.2119-2128.2004     Document Type: Article

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