Physiological and phylogenetic study of an ammonium-oxidizing culture at high nitrite concentrations

Systematic and Applied Microbiology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 114-125

  Tan, Nico C G ^a   Kampschreur, Marlies J ^b   Wanders, Wouter ^a   van der Pol, Willem L J ^a   van de Vossenberg, Jack ^a   Kleerebezem, Robbert ^b   van Loosdrecht, Mark C M ^b   Jetten, Mike S M ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ammonium oxidation; Deinococcus; High nitrite concentration; Nitrification; Nitrosomonas

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; NITRITE; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BATCH REACTOR; BIOMASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DEINOCOCCUS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NITRIFICATION; NITROSOMONAS; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; NITROSOMONAS MOBILIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; WASTE WATER;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; BIOMASS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, RRNA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRITES; NITROGEN; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

DEINOCOCCUS; NITROSOMONAS;

EID: 44349126247     PISSN: 07232020     EISSN: 16180984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.syapm.2008.01.002     Document Type: Article

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