The impact of genome analyses on our understanding of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 61, Issue , 2007, Pages 503-528

  Arp, Daniel J ^a   Chain, Patrick S G ^b,c   Klotz, Martin G ^d  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Complete genome sequences; N cycle; Nitrosococcus; Nitrosomonas

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA MONOOXYGENASE; POLYPHOSPHATE; PYROPHOSPHATE; SUCROSE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNSPECIFIC MONOOXYGENASE;

AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIA; AUTOTROPHY; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; CATABOLISM; DENITRIFICATION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; NITROSOCOCCUS; NITROSOMONAS; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMMONIA; BACTERIA; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; NITRATES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SUCROSE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NITROSOCOCCUS; NITROSOMONADALES; NITROSOMONAS; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 35848950017     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.61.080706.093449     Document Type: Review

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