Diversity of ammonia-oxidizing archaea and bacteria in the sediments of a hypernutrified subtropical estuary: Bahía del Tóbari, Mexico

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 7767-7777

  Beman, J Michael ^a   Francis, Christopher A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CATALYSIS; ESTUARIES; GENES; NITRIFICATION; OXIDATION; SEDIMENTS;

AMMONIA-OXIDIZING ARCHAEA (AOA); HYPERNUTRIFIED SUBTROPICAL ESTUARY; NITROGEN CYCLE; NITROSOMONAS;

BACTERIA;

AMMONIA; RUNOFF;

AMMONIA; AMMONIUM; BACTERIUM; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; NITRIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROKARYOTE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

AMOA GENE; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; CRENARCHAEOTA; ESTUARINE SPECIES; ESTUARY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MESOPHILIC BACTERIUM; MEXICO; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN CYCLE; NITROSOMONAS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAMPLING; SEDIMENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

AMMONIA; CRENARCHAEOTA; ECOSYSTEM; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MEXICO; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROSOMONAS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; SONORA; TOBARI BAY;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CRENARCHAEOTA; NITROSOMONAS;

EID: 33845520639     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00946-06     Document Type: Article

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