Quantitative distribution of presumptive archaeal and bacterial nitrifiers in Monterey Bay and the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1162-1175

  Mincer, Tracy J ^a   Church, Matthew J ^b   Taylor, Lance Trent ^c   Preston, Christina ^c   Karl, David M ^b   DeLong, Edward F ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA MONOOXYGENASE; NITRITE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; RIBOSOME RNA; SEA WATER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CRENARCHAEOTA; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYLOGENY; RNA GENE; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; CRENARCHAEOTA; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENES, RRNA; HAWAII; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRITES; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEAWATER;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CANDIDATUS NITROSOPUMILUS MARITIMUS; CRENARCHAEOTA; NITROSPINA;

EID: 34247847886     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2007.01239.x     Document Type: Article

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