Relevance of a crenarchaeotal subcluster related to Candidatus Nitrosopumilus maritimus to ammonia oxidation in the suboxic zone of the central Baltic Sea

ISME Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1496-1508

  Labrenz, Matthias ^a   Sintes, Eva ^b,c   Toetzke, Falko ^a   Zumsteg, Anita ^a,d   Herndl, Gerhard J ^b,c   Seidler, Marleen ^a   Jürgens, Klaus ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d Research Unit Soil Sciences   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

amoA gene; central Baltic Sea; Crenarchaea; pelagic redoxcline

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; AMMONIA MONOOXYGENASE; ARCHAEAL DNA; OXIDOREDUCTASE; RNA 16S; SEA WATER;

ABUNDANCE; AMMONIA; CLINE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NITRIFICATION; OXIDATION; PELAGIC ENVIRONMENT; PROKARYOTE; REDOX CONDITIONS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUBOXIC CONDITIONS; SURVIVAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CRENARCHAEOTA; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NITRIFICATION; NUCLEIC ACID PROBE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYLOGENY; SEA;

AMMONIA; CRENARCHAEOTA; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, ARCHAEAL; NITRIFICATION; NUCLEIC ACID PROBES; OCEANS AND SEAS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDATUS NITROSOPUMILUS MARITIMUS; CRENARCHAEOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 78649450690     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2010.78     Document Type: Article

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