Evidence that ammonia-oxidizing archaea are more abundant than ammonia-oxidizing bacteria in semiarid soils of northern Arizona, USA

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 420-426

  Adair, Karen L ^a   Schwartz, Egbert ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; AMMONIA MONOOXYGENASE; ARCHAEAL DNA; BACTERIAL DNA; OXIDOREDUCTASE;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; DESERT CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE DOSAGE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

AMMONIA; ARCHAEA; ARIZONA; BACTERIA; DESERT CLIMATE; DNA, ARCHAEAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; GENE DOSAGE; LINEAR MODELS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NITROSOMONADALES;

EID: 51349088322     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-007-9360-9     Document Type: Article

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