Nitrification and Nitrifying Bacteria in the Lower Seine River and Estuary (France)

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 7091-7100

  Cébron, Aurélie ^a   Berthe, Thierry ^a,b   Garnier, Josette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; DEGRADATION; EFFLUENTS; ESTUARIES; NITRIFICATION; RIVERS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

NITRIFYING BACTERIA; OXYGEN DEPLETION;

WATER BACTERIOLOGY;

AMMONIA; DNA 16S; NITRITE; RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RIVER WATER; RNA 16S; AMMONIA MONOOXYGENASE; FRESH WATER; OXIDOREDUCTASE;

NITRIFICATION; NITRIFYING BACTERIUM; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; WASTEWATER;

ARTICLE; EFFLUENT; ESTUARY; FRANCE; GENE LIBRARY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; NITRIFICATION; NITROBACTER; NITROSOMONAS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOBACTERIA; SEWAGE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; SEINE ESTUARY; SEINE RIVER; WESTERN EUROPE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; NITROBACTER; NITROSOMONADALES; NITROSOMONAS; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; NITROSOMONAS OLIGOTROPHA; NITROSPIRA; OLIGOTROPHA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

AMMONIA; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; FRANCE; FRESH WATER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRITES; NITROBACTER; NITROSOMONAS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEOBACTERIA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID;

EID: 2142689183     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.12.7091-7100.2003     Document Type: Article

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