Identity and ecophysiology of uncultured actinobacterial polyphosphate-accumulating organisms in full-scale enhanced biological phosphorus removal plants

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 4076-4085

  Kong, Yunhong ^a   Nielsen, Jeppe Lund ^a   Nielsen, Per Halkjær ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; BIOMASS; GENES; PHOSPHORUS; RADIOGRAPHY; REMOVAL; RNA; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ENHANCED BIOLOGICAL PHOSPHORUS REMOVAL (EBPR) PLANTS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION (FISH); MICROAUTORADIOGRAPHY (MAR); POLYPHOSPHATE-ACCUMULATING ORGANISMS (PAO);

BACTERIA;

ACETIC ACID; ALCOHOL; AMINO ACID; GLUCOSE; NITRATE; NITRILE; ORGANIC MATTER; OXYGEN; PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHORUS; POLYHYDROXYALKANOIC ACID; POLYPHOSPHATE; RNA 16S; SHORT CHAIN FATTY ACID;

ECOPHYSIOLOGY;

ACTINOBACTERIA; AEROBIC METABOLISM; ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; DENITRIFICATION; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; ENHANCED BIOLOGICAL PHOSPHORUS REMOVAL PLANT; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE PROBE; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; INTRAPORANGIACEAE; MICROAUTORADIOGRAPHY; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; MICROMORPHOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; RHODOCYCLUS; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TETRASPHAERA; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

ACTINOBACTERIA; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BIOREACTORS; ECOSYSTEM; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; PHOSPHORUS; PHYLOGENY; POLYPHOSPHATES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEWAGE; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); INTRASPORANGIACEAE; POSIBACTERIA; RHODOCYCLUS; TETRASPHAERA;

EID: 22144485591     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.7.4076-4085.2005     Document Type: Article

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