Diversity, abundance, and spatial distribution of sedimet ammonia-oxidizing Betaproteobacteria in response to environmental gradients and coastal eutrophication in Jiaozhou Bay, China

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 4691-4702

  Dang, Hongyue ^a   Li, Jing ^a   Chen, Ruipeng ^a,b   Wang, Lin ^a,b   Guo, Lizhong ^b   Zhang, Zhinan ^c   Klotz, Martin G ^a,d  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM   (China)

^b QINGDAO AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^d University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EUTROPHICATION; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BIO-INDICATORS; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING; BIOTRACERS; CLONE LIBRARY; COASTAL ENVIRONMENTS; COASTAL EUTROPHICATION; COASTAL WATERS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; DIRECT LINKS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETER; GENE SEQUENCES; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; JIAOZHOU BAY; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; NITROSOMONAS; POLLUTED RIVERS; PROTEIN SEQUENCES; QUANTITATIVE PCR; SAND CONTENT; SENSITIVE INDICATOR; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; AMMONIA; ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; CLONING; EUTROPHICATION; FORESTRY; GENES; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; NITRIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

AMMONIA; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; NITRATE; NITRITE; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ABUNDANCE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BACTERIUM; BAY; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; BIOINDICATOR; COASTAL ZONE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; EUTROPHICATION; GENE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NITRIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIVER POLLUTION; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TRACER; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CHINA; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; EUTROPHICATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; METAGENOME; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NITROSOMONADACEAE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYLOGENY; SEDIMENT;

AMMONIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIODIVERSITY; CHINA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EUTROPHICATION; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; METAGENOME; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRATES; NITRITES; NITROSOMONADACEAE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CHINA; JIAOZHOU BAY; SHANDONG;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; NITROSOMONAS; NITROSOMONAS OLIGOTROPHA; NITROSOSPIRA;

EID: 77954736030     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02563-09     Document Type: Article

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