Replicability of bacterial communities in denitrifying bioreactors as measured by PCR/T-RFLP analysis

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 509-515

  McGuinness, Lora M ^a   Salganik, Max ^a   Vega, Leticia ^b   Pickering, Karen D ^b   Kerkhof, Lee J ^a,c  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOLOGY; BIOREACTORS; ECOLOGY; STREAM FLOW; WASTES;

DENITRIFYING CONDITIONS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; WASTE STREAM;

BACTERIA;

NITROUS OXIDE REDUCTASE; RNA 16S;

BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; BIOREACTORS; ECOLOGY; STREAM FLOW; WASTES;

DENITRIFICATION; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM; BIOREACTOR; DENITRIFICATION; DENITRIFYING BACTERIUM; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; NOSZ GENE; PERFORMANCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SPACE FLIGHT; WASTE WATER RECYCLING;

BACTERIA; BIOREACTORS; GENES, BACTERIAL; NITRITES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 31144444777     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es050900l     Document Type: Article

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