Incidence of novel and potentially archaeal nitrogenase genes in the deep Northeast Pacific Ocean

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1525-1534

  Mehta, Mausmi P ^a   Huber, Julie A ^a,b   Baross, John A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAL DNA; NITROGENASE; NITROGENASE REDUCTASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; SEA WATER;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYLOGENY;

ARCHAEA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, ARCHAEAL; GENES, ARCHAEAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGENASE; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYLOGENY; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ARCHAEA; CRENARCHAEOTA; EURYARCHAEOTA; METHANOBACTERIALES;

EID: 25144431975     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2005.00836.x     Document Type: Article

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