Denitrifier community composition along a nitrate and salinity gradient in a coastal aquifer

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 2102-2109

  Santoro, Alyson E ^a   Boehm, Alexandria B ^a   Francis, Christopher A ^b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; AQUIFERS; CLONING; DNA; NITRATES; NITROGEN; SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

COASTAL AQUIFER; SUBMARINE GROUNDWATER DISCHARGE;

DENITRIFICATION;

GROUND WATER; NITRATE; NITRATE REDUCTASE;

COASTAL AQUIFER; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NITRATE; SALINITY;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; AQUIFER; ARTICLE; COASTAL WATERS; COMMUNITY CARE; DENITRIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MOLECULAR CLONING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NIRK GENE; NIRS GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALINITY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA; CALIFORNIA; ECOSYSTEM; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRATES; NITRITE REDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

EID: 33644949502     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.72.3.2102-2109.2006     Document Type: Article

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