Inoculum effects on community composition and nitritation performance of autotrophic nitrifying biofilm reactors with counter-diffusion geometry

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2858-2872

  Terada, Akihiko ^a,b   Lackner, Susanne ^a,c   Kristensen, Ken ^a   Smets, Barth F ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; NITRITE; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; AUTOTROPHY; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; BIOFILM; BIOREACTOR; CLASSIFICATION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NITRIFICATION; NITROSOMONAS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

AMMONIA; AUTOTROPHIC PROCESSES; BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOFILMS; BIOREACTORS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRIFICATION; NITRITES; NITROSOMONAS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NITROSOMONAS; NITROSOSPIRA;

EID: 77957305726     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02267.x     Document Type: Article

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