Potential interactions of particle-associated anammox bacteria with bacterial and archaeal partners in the Namibian upwelling system

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 4648-4657

  Woebken, Dagmar ^a   Fuchs, Bernhard M ^a   Kuypers, Marcel M M ^a   Amann, Rudolf ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAL PARTNERS; POTENTIAL INTERACTIONS; UPWELLING SYSTEM;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; CATALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); FLUORESCENCE; GENES; NITROGEN; OXIDATION; RNA;

BACTERIA;

AMMONIA; NITROGEN; RNA 16S;

AMMONIUM; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BACTERIUM; CATALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GENETIC ANALYSIS; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; NITROGEN; OXIDATION; OXYGEN MINIMUM LAYER; PROKARYOTE; UPWELLING;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPLANKTON; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTEROIDETES; CLADISTICS; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; CRENARCHAEOTA; EURYARCHAEOTA; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; MARINE BACTERIUM; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NAMIBIA; NITRIFICATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUTRIENT; OXIDATION; REACTION ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER;

ANAEROBIOSIS; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; DNA, ARCHAEAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NAMIBIA; PHYLOGENY; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

AFRICA; NAMIBIA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; CANDIDATUS NITROSOPUMILUS MARITIMUS; CANDIDATUS SCALINDUA; CRENARCHAEOTA; EURYARCHAEOTA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 34547201959     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02774-06     Document Type: Article

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