Effect of lake trophic status and rooted macrophytes on community composition and abundance of ammonia-oxidizing prokaryotes in freshwater sediments

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3127-3136

  Herrmann, Martina ^a,c   Saunders, Aaron M ^b   Schramm, Andreas ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b DANISH TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^c LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC MACROPHYTES; ARCHAEA; ARCHAEAL; C/N RATIO; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FRESHWATER SEDIMENT; GENE DIVERSITY; MACROPHYTE; MACROPHYTES; MESOTROPHIC; MONOOXYGENASE; MYRIOPHYLLUM; OPERATIONAL TAXONOMIC UNITS; PLANT SPECIES; QUANTITATIVE PCR; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; ROOT SYSTEM; SOFTWATER; SPECIFIC INTERACTION; TROPHIC STATUS;

AMMONIA; BACTERIOLOGY; FIRE HAZARDS; LAKES; LEAKAGE (FLUID); MICROORGANISMS; ORGANIC CARBON; OXYGEN; SOILS;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

AMMONIA; ORGANIC CARBON; OXYGEN; UNSPECIFIC MONOOXYGENASE;

ABUNDANCE; AMMONIA; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; MACROPHYTE; ORGANIC CARBON; PH; PROKARYOTE; RHIZOSPHERE; TROPHIC ENVIRONMENT;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENZYME SUBUNIT; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LAKE SEDIMENT; MACROPHYTE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION; PH; PLANT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROKARYOTE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RHIZOSPHERE; ROOT SYSTEM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TAXONOMY; TROPHIC LEVEL; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

AMMONIA; ARCHAEA; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIODIVERSITY; DNA, ARCHAEAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; PLANT ROOTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); JUNCUS BULBOSUS; LITTORELLA UNIFLORA; MYRIOPHYLLUM ALTERNIFLORUM; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 66249103693     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02806-08     Document Type: Article

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