Isolation and characterization of a moderately thermophilic nitrite-oxidizing bacterium from a geothermal spring

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 195-204

  Lebedeva, Elena V ^a   Off, Sandra ^b   Zumbrägel, Sabine ^b   Kruse, Myriam ^c   Shagzhina, Ayvi ^d   Lücker, Sebastian ^e   Maixner, Frank ^e   Lipski, André ^c   Daims, Holger ^e   Spieck, Eva ^b  

^a WINOGRADSKY INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE OF GENERAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Hot springs; Moderately thermophilic nitrite oxidation; Nitrification; Nitrospira

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; NITRITE; RNA 16S;

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GEOTHERMAL SYSTEM; HABITAT TYPE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; OXIDATION; PH; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GRAM NEGATIVE CHEMOLITHOTROPHIC AND METHANE PRODUCING BACTERIA; HEAT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NITRIFICATION; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYLOGENY; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; THERMAL SPRING;

DNA, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE CHEMOLITHOTROPHIC BACTERIA; HOT SPRINGS; HOT TEMPERATURE; NITRIFICATION; NITRITES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RUSSIA;

AUSTRALIA; BAIKAL RIFT ZONE; KAMCHATKA; KAMCHATKA PENINSULA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NITROSPIRA;

EID: 78650789187     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2010.01006.x     Document Type: Article

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