PCR profiling of ammonia-oxidizer communities in acidic soils subjected to nitrogen and sulphur deposition

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 305-316

  Schmidt, Christoph Stephan ^a   Hultman, Kristine A ^a   Robinson, David ^a   Killham, Ken ^a   Prosser, James I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acid deposition; Acidic soils; Ammonia oxidizing bacteria; amoA; CTO primers; Nitrogen deposition

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; AMMONIA MONOOXYGENASE; NITROGEN; RNA 16S; SULFUR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNSPECIFIC MONOOXYGENASE;

ACID DEPOSITION; ACID SOIL; AMMONIA; BACTERIUM; CONIFEROUS FOREST; ELECTROKINESIS; FOREST SOIL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NITROGEN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; RNA; SOIL BIOTA; SULFUR;

ARTICLE; AUTOTROPHY; BACTERIAL FLORA; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; FOREST SOIL; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LIBRARY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MOLECULAR CLONING; NITROGEN DEPOSITION; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; NITROSOSPIRA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL ACIDITY; SOIL ANALYSIS; SPRING; UNITED KINGDOM;

AMMONIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; NITROGEN; NITROSOMONADACEAE; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SCOTLAND; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SULFUR; WALES;

CEREDIGION; DEEPSYKE FOREST; EURASIA; EUROPE; PWLLPEIRAN; SCOTLAND; SCOTTISH BORDERS; UNITED KINGDOM; WALES; WESTERN EUROPE;

NITROSOMONADALES; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; NITROSOSPIRA; PICEA;

EID: 34447517264     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2007.00335.x     Document Type: Article

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