Novel genes for nitrite reductase and Amo-related proteins indicate a role of uncultivated mesophilic crenarchaeota in nitrogen cycling

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1985-1995

  Treusch, Alexander H ^a   Leininger, Sven ^a   Kietzin, Arnulf ^b   Schuster, Stephan C ^c   Klenk, Hans Peter ^b   Schleper, Christa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c Max Planck Institutes   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEA; CRENARCHAEOTA;

EID: 28644435323     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2005.00906.x     Document Type: Article

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