Anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing (Anammox) bacteria and associated activity in fixed-film biofilters of a marine recirculating aquaculture system

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 2896-2904

  Tal, Yossi ^a   Watts, Joy E M ^b   Schreier, Harold J ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b TOWSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; BIOFILMS; BIOFILTERS; DNA; MICROBIOLOGY; OXIDATION;

ANAEROBIC DENITRIFYING BIOFILTERS; ANAEROBIC SLUDGE WASTE COLLECTION TANK; FIXED-FILM BIOFILTERS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES;

BACTERIA;

AMMONIA; RIBOSOME RNA;

AQUACULTURE; BACTERIUM; BIOFILM; DNA; GENE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY;

ANAEROBIC AMMONIUM OXIDIZING BACTERIA; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; AQUACULTURE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIOFILTER; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DENITRIFICATION; FIXED FILM REACTOR; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANCTOMYCETALES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA GENE;

AMMONIA; AQUACULTURE; BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; BIOFILMS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FILTRATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRATES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PLANCTOMYCETALES;

EID: 33646080363     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.72.4.2896-2904.2006     Document Type: Article

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