Identity, abundance and physiology of Aquaspirillum-related filamentous bacteria in activated sludge

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 237-245

  Thomsen, T R ^a   Kragelund, C ^a   Nielsen, P H ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Aquaspirillum related filamentous bacteria; Ecophysiology; Epiphytic growth; Fluorescence in situ hybridizations; Gram variable

Indexed keywords

AQUASPIRILLUM-RELATED FILAMENTOUS BACTERIA; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; EPIPHYTIC GROWTH; GRAM-VARIABLE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATIONS;

BACTERIA; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL SEWAGE TREATMENT; DENITRIFICATION; MORPHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBES; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS;

ACETIC ACID; AMINO ACID; BUTYRIC ACID; GLUCOSE; GLYCOGEN; MANNOSE; POLYHYDROXYALKANOIC ACID;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS; BACTERIA; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL SEWAGE TREATMENT; DENITRIFICATION; MORPHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBES; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ABUNDANCE; ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BACTERIUM; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOTYPE;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; AQUASPIRILLUM; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CHLOROFLEXI; COLONY FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENITRIFICATION; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; EPIPHYTE; GENOTYPE; GLUCOSE INTAKE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM STAINING; MICROMORPHOLOGY; MICRORADIOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR PROBE; MORPHOTYPE; NONHUMAN; SPIRILLUM; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; ECOSYSTEM; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; PROTEOBACTERIA; SEWAGE;

AQUASPIRILLUM; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CHLOROFLEXI; CHLOROFLEXI (CLASS); NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 33746685756     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2006.392     Document Type: Article

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