Effects of Sponge Bleaching on Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea: Distribution and Relative Expression of Ammonia Monooxygenase Genes Associated with the Barrel Sponge Xestospongia muta

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 561-571

  López Legentil, Susanna ^a,b   Erwin, Patrick M ^a   Pawlik, Joseph R ^a   Song, Bongkeun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; AMMONIA MONOOXYGENASE; ARCHAEAL PROTEIN; ARCHAEAL RNA; OXIDOREDUCTASE;

ANIMAL; ARCHAEAL GENE; ARTICLE; CRENARCHAEOTA; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYLOGENY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; XESTOSPONGIA;

AMMONIA; ANIMALS; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; CRENARCHAEOTA; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, ARCHAEAL; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, ARCHAEAL; XESTOSPONGIA;

ARCHAEA; CRENARCHAEOTA; CYANOBACTERIA; XESTOSPONGIA; XESTOSPONGIA MUTA;

EID: 77958043038     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-010-9662-1     Document Type: Article

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