Nitrous oxide reductase genes (nosZ) of denitrifying microbial populations in soil and the earthworm gut are phylogenetically similar

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 1019-1026

  Horn, Marcus A ^a   Drake, Harold L ^a   Schramm, Andreas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENITRIFICATION; ENZYMES; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROORGANISMS; NITROGEN OXIDES; SOILS;

EARTHWORM; REDUCTASE; SOIL DENITRIFIERS;

GENES;

NITRIC OXIDE REDUCTASE; NITROGEN DERIVATIVE; NITROUS OXIDE;

DENITRIFICATION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; EARTHWORM; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM; BRADYRHIZOBIUM; BRUCELLA; DECHLOROMONAS; DENITRIFICATION; EARTHWORM; FLAVOBACTERIUM; GENE LIBRARY; GENOTYPE; INTESTINE; NONHUMAN; NOSZ GENE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PSEUDOMONAS; RALSTONIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINORHIZOBIUM; SOIL BACTERIUM; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BRADYRHIZOBIUM; BRUCELLA; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; FLAVOBACTERIUM; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGOCHAETA; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; PSEUDOMONAS; RALSTONIA; RHODOCYCLACEAE; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SINORHIZOBIUM; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRADYRHIZOBIUM; BRUCELLA; DECHLOROMONAS; FLAVOBACTERIUM; PHERETIMA SIEBOLDI; PSEUDOMONAS; RALSTONIA; SINORHIZOBIUM;

EID: 33144486722     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.72.2.1019-1026.2006     Document Type: Article

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