Identification and quantitative evaluation of nitrogen-converting organisms in a full-scale leachate treatment plant

Journal of Environmental Management

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 714-723

  Yapsakli, Kozet ^a   Aliyazicioglu, Cigdem ^a   Mertoglu, Bulent ^a  

^a MARMARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Ammonia and nitrite oxidizing bacteria; Ammonia oxidizing archaea; Anammox

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; BACTERIA; CLONING; LEACHATE TREATMENT; NITRATION; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN REMOVAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

AMMONIA AND NITRITE OXIDIZING BACTERIA; AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIA; AMMONIA-NITROGEN; AMMONIA-OXIDIZING ARCHAEA; ANAEROBICS; ANEROBIC AMMONIA-OXIDIZING BACTERIA; LANDFILL LEACHATES; LEACHATE TREATMENT PLANT; NITRITE-OXIDIZING BACTERIA; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION;

NITROGEN;

RIBOSOME DNA;

AMMONIA; BIODEGRADATION; DENITRIFICATION; GENE; LANDFILL; LEACHATE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NITROGEN; PHYLOGENETICS; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROKARYOTE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME;

AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRENARCHAEOTA; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LANDFILL LEACHATE; NITRITE OXIDIZING BACTERIUM; NITROSOMONAS; NITROSOSPIRA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT; SLOT BLOT HYBRIDIZATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDATUS KUENENIA STUTTGARTIENSIS; NITROSOMONADALES; NITROSOMONAS; NITROSPIRA; UNCULTURED CRENARCHAEOTE;

EID: 78650520738     PISSN: 03014797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2010.10.017     Document Type: Article

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