Diversity of ammonium-oxidizing bacteria in a granular sludge anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing (anammox) reactor

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3130-3139

  Quan, Zhe Xue ^a   Rhee, Sung Keun ^b   Zuo, Jian E ^c   Yang, Yang ^c   Bae, Jin Woo ^d   Park, Ja Ryeong ^d   Lee, Sung Taik ^e   Park, Yong Ha ^d,f  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Chungbuk National University   (South Korea)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB)   (South Korea)

^e Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^f Yeungnam University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA MONOOXYGENASE; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; OXIDOREDUCTASE; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYLOGENY; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEWAGE;

ANAEROBIOSIS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIODIVERSITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, RRNA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SEWAGE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CANDIDATUS JETTENIA ASIATICA; NITROSOCOCCUS MOBILIS; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; PLANCTOMYCETALES;

EID: 52949144536     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01642.x     Document Type: Article

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