Nitrogen and phosphorus enrichment alter the composition of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria in salt marsh sediments

ISME Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 933-944

  Lage, Melissa D ^a   Reed, Heather E ^b   Weihe, Claudia ^b   Crain, Caitlin M ^a,c   Martiny, Jennifer B H ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

proteobacteria; ammonia oxidizing bacteria; Nitrosospira; temporal variability

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; AMMONIA MONOOXYGENASE; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE ACII; NITROGEN; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PHOSPHORUS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TYPE II SITE SPECIFIC DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE;

AMMONIA; BACTERIUM; CLADISTICS; COASTAL SEDIMENT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NITROGEN; NITROGEN CYCLE; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; OXIDATION; PHOSPHORUS; POLYMORPHISM; SALTMARSH; TAXONOMY; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYLOGENY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEDIMENT; UNITED STATES; WETLAND; BACTERIA;

AMMONIA; BACTERIA; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; ECOSYSTEM; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MAINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHOSPHORUS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SODIUM CHLORIDE; WETLANDS;

MAINE; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; NITROSOMONADALES; NITROSOSPIRA;

EID: 77954089501     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2010.10     Document Type: Article

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