Population ecology of nitrifying Archaea and Bacteria in the Southern California Bight

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1282-1292

  Beman, J Michael ^a   Sachdeva, Rohan ^a   Fuhrman, Jed A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; AMMONIA MONOOXYGENASE; ARCHAEAL DNA; BACTERIAL DNA; NITRITE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; RNA 16S; SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CLASSIFICATION; CRENARCHAEOTA; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TIME; UNITED STATES; CALIFORNIA; TIME FACTOR;

AMMONIA; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CALIFORNIA; CRENARCHAEOTA; DNA, ARCHAEAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; NITRITES; OXIDOREDUCTASES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TIME FACTORS;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CRENARCHAEOTA; NITROSOMONADALES;

EID: 77953553271     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02172.x     Document Type: Article

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