Oxygen isotopic fractionation and exchange during bacterial nitrite oxidation

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1064-1074

  Buchwald, Carolyn ^a   Casciotti, Karen L ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NITRATE; NITRIFICATION; NITRITE; NITROGEN CYCLE; OXIDATION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NITROBACTER; NITROCOCCUS; NITROSOMONADALES; NITROSPIRA;

EID: 77951864750     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2010.55.3.1064     Document Type: Article

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