Putative ammonia-oxidizing Crenarchaeota in suboxic waters of the Black Sea: A basin-wide ecological study using 16S ribosomal and functional genes and membrane lipids

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1001-1016

  Coolen, Marco J L ^a,d   Abbas, Ben ^a   Van Bleijswijk, Judith ^a   Hopmans, Ellen C ^a   Kuypers, Marcel M M ^b   Wakeham, Stuart G ^c   Sinninghe Damsté, Jaap S ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c SKIDAWAY INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (United States)

^d WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; AMMONIA MONOOXYGENASE; BACTERIAL DNA; MEMBRANE LIPID; NITROGEN; OXIDOREDUCTASE; RNA 16S; SEA WATER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CRENARCHAEOTA; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SEA;

AMMONIA; CRENARCHAEOTA; DNA, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE LIPIDS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN; OCEANS AND SEAS; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CRENARCHAEOTA;

EID: 33947110858     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2006.01227.x     Document Type: Article

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