Spatial variability in nitrification rates and ammonia-oxidizing microbial communities in the agriculturally impacted Elkhorn Slough estuary, California

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 269-280

  Wankel, Scott D ^a,b   Mosier, Annika C ^b   Hansel, Colleen M ^b,c   Paytan, Adina ^d   Francis, Christopher A ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA OXIDATION; ARCHAEA; ARCHAEAL; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROCESS; CALIFORNIA; ESTUARINE SYSTEMS; ESTUARY SEDIMENTS; FLOWTHROUGH; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; MICROBIAL OXIDATION; MONOOXYGENASES; MONTEREY BAY; NITRIFICATION RATES; NITROGEN CYCLING; NITROSOMONAS; NUTRIENT FLUXES; QUANTITATIVE PCR; SEDIMENT CORE; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; TIGHT COUPLING;

AMMONIA; ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; DENITRIFICATION; ESTUARIES; GENE ENCODING; NITRIFICATION; NUTRIENTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

OXIDATION;

AMMONIA; AMMONIA MONOOXYGENASE; ARCHAEAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; NITRATE; NITRITE; NITROGEN; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PHOSPHATE;

ABUNDANCE; AGRICULTURAL CHANGE; AMMONIA; BACTERIUM; ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NEW RECORD; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN CYCLE; OXIDATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NITRIFICATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; SEDIMENT; STAINING; UNITED STATES;

AMMONIA; ARCHAEA; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CALIFORNIA; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRATES; NITRIFICATION; NITRITES; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHOSPHATES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STAINING AND LABELING;

CALIFORNIA; ELKHORN SLOUGH; MONTEREY BAY; UNITED STATES;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; NITROSOMONAS; NITROSOSPIRA;

EID: 78650929168     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01318-10     Document Type: Article

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