Methane-oxidizing bacteria in a California upland grassland soil: Diversity and response to simulated global change

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 2642-2652

  Horz, Hans Peter ^a,b   Rich, Virginia ^a,c   Avrahami, Sharon ^a   Bohannan, Brendan J M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BACTERIA; MICROBIOLOGY; OXIDATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SOILS;

ANTAGONISTIC INTERACTIONS; CALIFORNIA; GRASSLANDS; OXIDIZERS;

METHANE;

AMINO ACID; METHANE MONOOXYGENASE;

GRASSLAND; METHANE; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE; GLOBAL CHANGE; GRASSLAND; METHANOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PMOA GENE; PRECIPITATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; METHYLOCOCCACEAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXYGENASES; PHYLOGENY; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

METHYLOCYSTACEAE;

EID: 18444409388     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.5.2642-2652.2005     Document Type: Article

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