Investigation of total bacterial and ammonia-oxidizing bacterial community composition in a full-scale aerated submerged biofilm reactor for drinking water pretreatment in China

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 268, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 126-134

  Qin, Ying Ying ^a   Li, Dao Tang ^a   Yang, Hong ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Ammonia oxidizing bacteria; Bacterial community; Biological water pretreatment reactor; Clone library

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; DRINKING WATER; RIBOSOME RNA;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BIOFILM REACTOR; CHINA; CHLOROFLEXI; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPHAGA; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; FIRMICUTES; FLAVOBACTERIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE SEQUENCE; IMMERSION; METABOLIC CAPACITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHODOBACTER; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING;

AMMONIA; BIOFILMS; BIOREACTORS; CHINA; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; GENE LIBRARY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOBACTERIA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WATER PURIFICATION; WATER SUPPLY;

ACIDOBACTERIA; ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CHLOROFLEXI; CHLOROFLEXI (CLASS); CYTOPHAGA; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; FIRMICUTES; FLAVOBACTERIUM; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GEMMATIMONADETES; NITROSOMONADALES; NITROSOMONAS; NITROSOMONAS COMMUNIS; NITROSOMONAS OLIGOTROPHA; NITROSPIRA; PLANCTOMYCETES; RHODOBACTER; VERRUCOMICROBIA;

EID: 33846658320     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2006.00571.x     Document Type: Article

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