Community level analysis: Genetic and biogeochemical approaches to investigate community composition and function in aerobic ammonia oxidation

Methods in Enzymology

Volumn 397, Issue , 2005, Pages 395-413

  Ward, Bess B ^a   O'Mullan, Gregory D ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; NITRATE; ORGANIC NITROGEN; OXIDIZING AGENT; SEA WATER; TRACER;

AEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; DENITRIFICATION; DNA EXTRACTION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOBACTERIA;

PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 27644542367     PISSN: 00766879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0076-6879(05)97024-9     Document Type: Review

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