Identification of ciliate grazers of autotrophic bacteria in ammonia-oxidizing activated sludge by RNA stable isotope probing

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2203-2211

  Moreno, Ana Maria ^a   Matz, Carsten ^b   Kjelleberg, Staffan ^a   Manefield, Mike ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; AUTOTROPHIC BACTERIA; BACTERIAL BIOMASS; CLONE LIBRARY; ESCHERICHIA COLI CELLS; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PHYLOTYPES; STABLE-ISOTOPE PROBING;

AMMONIA; BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; BIOACTIVITY; CLONING; DENITRIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; ISOTOPES; PROTOZOA;

RNA;

AMMONIA; CARBON; PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOAL RNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA; RNA 18S;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; AUTOTROPHY; BACTERIUM; CILIATE; DOMINANCE; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GRAZING; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NUTRIENT CYCLING; OXIDATION; PROBE; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; CILIATE; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA DENATURATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RNA GENE; SEWAGE; STAINING;

AMMONIA; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; CARBON; CARBON ISOTOPES; CILIOPHORA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GENES, RRNA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; RNA; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEWAGE; STAINING AND LABELING;

AMOEBA (GENUS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CILIOPHORA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 77950267778     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02777-09     Document Type: Article

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