Abundances of crenarchaeal amoA genes and transcripts in the Pacific Ocean

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 679-688

  Church, Matthew J ^a   Wai, Brenner ^a   Karl, David M ^a   DeLong, Edward F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; AMMONIA MONOOXYGENASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; RNA 16S; SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; CRENARCHAEOTA; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PACIFIC OCEAN;

AMMONIA; CRENARCHAEOTA; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PACIFIC OCEAN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

CRENARCHAEOTA;

EID: 77953940648     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2009.02108.x     Document Type: Article

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