Salinity decreases nitrite reductase gene diversity in denitrifying bacteria of wastewater treatment systems

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 3152-3157

  Yoshie, Sachiko ^a   Noda, Naohiro ^b   Tsuneda, Satoshi ^a   Hirata, Akira ^a   Inamori, Yuhei ^c  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; ENZYMES; GENES; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

CLONES; GENE DIVERSITY;

MICROBIOLOGY;

NITRATE; NITRITE REDUCTASE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ALCALIGENES; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIOPLANKTON; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENITRIFICATION; FLUIDIZED BED; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NIRK GENE; NIRS GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SALINITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SLUDGE TREATMENT; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

ANAEROBIOSIS; BACTERIA; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRITE REDUCTASES; NITRITES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SODIUM CHLORIDE; VARIATION (GENETICS); WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID;

ALCALIGENES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 2442673164     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.5.3152-3157.2004     Document Type: Article

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