Archaeal diversity and a gene for ammonia oxidation are coupled to oceanic circulation

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 971-980

  Galand, Pierre E ^a,b   Lovejoy, Connie ^a   Hamilton, Andrew K ^c   Ingram, R Grant ^c   Pedneault, Estelle ^a   Carmack, Eddy C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b CENTRE D ESTUDIS AVANÇATS DE BLANES CEAB CSIC   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; AMMONIA MONOOXYGENASE; ARCHAEAL DNA; ARCHAEAL PROTEIN; ARCHAEAL RNA; OXIDOREDUCTASE; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S; SEA WATER;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYLOGENY; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMMONIA; ARCHAEA; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; BIODIVERSITY; DNA, ARCHAEAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, RRNA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; RNA, ARCHAEAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

ARCHAEA;

EID: 63849288893     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01822.x     Document Type: Article

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