Community structures of ammonia-oxidising archaea and bacteria in high-altitude lakes on the Tibetan Plateau

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2375-2390

  Hu, Anyi ^a   Yao, Tandong ^b   Jiao, Nianzhi ^a   Liu, Yongqin ^b   Yang, Zao ^a   Liu, Xiaobo ^b  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Ammonia oxidising archaea; Ammonia oxidising bacteria; amoA gene; Multivariate statistical analysis; Salinity; Tibetan lakes

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NITROSOMONAS;

EID: 78649484001     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2010.02454.x     Document Type: Article

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