NifH expression by five groups of phototrophs compared with nitrogenase activity in coastal microbial mats

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 55-67

  Severin, Ina ^a   Stal, Lucas J ^a,b  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cyanobacteria; Gammaproteobacteria; Microbial mat; NifH expression

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; NITROGENASE; NITROGENASE REDUCTASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE;

COASTAL ZONE; CYANOBACTERIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL MAT; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHOTOAUTOTROPHY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ARTICLE; CYANOBACTERIUM; ENZYMOLOGY; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY;

CYANOBACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE LIBRARY; NITROGENASE; OXIDOREDUCTASES; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; LYNGBYA;

EID: 77953215386     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2010.00875.x     Document Type: Article

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