Molecular Analyses of the Microbial Community Composition of an Anoxic Basin of a Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plant Reveal a Novel Lineage of Proteobacteria

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 272-281

  Chouari, Rakia ^a   Le Paslier, Denis ^b,c   Daegelen, Patrick ^b,c   Dauga, Catherine ^e   Weissenbach, Jean ^b,c,d   Sghir, Abdelghani ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CARTHAGE   (Tunisia)

^b DIF   (France)

^c Genoscope   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ D EVRY VAL D ESSONNE   (France)

^e INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAL RNA; BACTERIAL RNA; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CRENARCHAEOTA; EURYARCHAEOTA; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; MICROBIOLOGY; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOBACTERIA; SEWAGE;

CRENARCHAEOTA; EURYARCHAEOTA; GENE LIBRARY; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOBACTERIA; RNA, ARCHAEAL; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEWAGE; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID;

ACIDOBACTERIUM; ACTINOBACTERIA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; CHLOROFLEXI; CHLOROFLEXI (CLASS); CRENARCHAEOTA; EURYARCHAEOTA; FIRMICUTES; NITROSPIRA; OTUS; PLANCTOMYCETALES; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 77956871403     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-009-9632-7     Document Type: Article

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