High diversity of ammonia-oxidizing archaea in permanent and seasonal oxygen-deficient waters of the eastern South Pacific

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2450-2465

  Molina, Verónica ^a   Belmar, Lucy ^a   Ulloa, Osvaldo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; AMMONIA MONOOXYGENASE; ARCHAEAL DNA; NITROGEN; OXIDOREDUCTASE; OXYGEN; SEA WATER;

ARCHAEAL GENE; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CHILE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PACIFIC OCEAN; PERU; PHYLOGENY;

AMMONIA; ARCHAEA; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CHILE; DNA, ARCHAEAL; GENES, ARCHAEAL; GENOTYPE; NITROGEN; OXIDOREDUCTASES; OXYGEN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PERU; PHYLOGENY; SEAWATER; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 77956256740     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02218.x     Document Type: Article

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