Detection of Defluvicoccus-related Glycogen-accumulating Organisms in Enhanced Biological Phosphorus Removal Processes

Microbes and Environments

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 190-195

  Kondo, Takashi ^a   Ebie, Yoshitaka ^b   Tsuneda, Satoshi ^a   Inamori, Yuhei ^b  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alphaproteobacteria; Enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR); Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH); G bacteria; Genus Defluvicoccus

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349934136     PISSN: 13426311     EISSN: 13474405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1264/jsme2.22.190     Document Type: Article

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