Diversity and spatio-temporal distribution of ammonia-oxidizing Archaea and Bacteria in sediments of the Westerschelde estuary

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 175-186

  Sahan, Emel ^a   Muyzer, Gerard ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

amoA; Crenarchaeota; Nitrosomonas; Nitrosospira; Population dynamics

Indexed keywords

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

BACTERIUM; ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; NITRITE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SALINITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION;

AMOA GENE; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CRENARCHAEOTA; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DENITRIFICATION; DNA EXTRACTION; ESTUARY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NETHERLANDS; NITRIFICATION; NITROSOMONAS; NITROSOSPIRA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALINITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AMMONIA; ARCHAEA; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIODIVERSITY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, ARCHAEAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NETHERLANDS; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TIME FACTORS;

ASIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; PHILIPPINES; SOUTHEAST ASIA; WESTERN EUROPE; WESTERN VISAYAS; WESTERSCHELDE;

CRENARCHAEOTA; NITROSOMONAS; NITROSOSPIRA;

EID: 42149108694     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2008.00462.x     Document Type: Article

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