Haloarchaeal assimilatory nitrate-reducing communities from a saline alkaline soil: Research letter

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 298, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 56-66

  Alcántara Hernández, Rocio J ^a   Valenzuela Encinas, César ^a   Zavala Díaz De La Serna, Francisco J ^a   Rodriguez Revilla, Javier ^a   Dendooven, Luc ^a   Marsch, Rodolfo ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Haloalkaline; Halobacteriaceae; Nitrate assimilation; Nitrate reducing haloarchaea

Indexed keywords

NITRATE; NITRATE REDUCTASE; PROTEIN NARB; PROTEIN NIRA; SODIUM CHLORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRENARCHAEOTA; EURYARCHAEOTA; GENE AMPLIFICATION; MEXICO; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL ANALYSIS;

ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; BIODIVERSITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, ARCHAEAL; EURYARCHAEOTA; MEXICO; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRATES; NITRITE REDUCTASES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

CRENARCHAEOTA; EURYARCHAEOTA; HALOBACTERIA; HALOBACTERIACEAE;

EID: 68149122178     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2009.01710.x     Document Type: Article

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