Links between methane flux and transcriptional activities of methanogens and methane oxidizers in a blanket peat bog

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 157-165

  Freitag, Thomas E ^a   Toet, Sylvia ^b   Ineson, Phil ^b   Prosser, James I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gene: transcript ratio; Methane oxidation; Methanogenesis

Indexed keywords

METHANE; METHANE MONOOXYGENASE; METHYL COENZYME M REDUCTASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; OXYGENASE;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BLANKET BOG; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; METHANE; METHANOGENESIS; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; OXIDATION; PEAT SOIL; PEATLAND; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL WATER; SURFACE FLUX; WATER CONTENT;

ARCHAEAL GENE; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; SOIL; WETLAND;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; GENES, ARCHAEAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; METHANE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; OXYGENASES; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; WETLANDS;

EID: 77953179577     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2010.00871.x     Document Type: Article

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