Isolation, cultivation, and characterization of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and archaea adapted to low ammonium concentrations

Methods in Enzymology

Volumn 486, Issue C, 2011, Pages 55-88

  Bollmann, Annette ^a   French, Elizabeth ^a   Laanbroek, Hendrikus J ^b,c  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; AMOA PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROUS OXIDE; OXYGEN; RNA 16S; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TRACE ELEMENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

ADAPTATION; AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIUM; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DILUTION; DNA EXTRACTION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GROWTH RATE; KINETICS; LIQUID CULTURE; NONHUMAN; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTES BY METABOLISM; SENSOR; STORAGE; TEMPERATURE;

NITROSOMONADALES;

EID: 78650940944     PISSN: 00766879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-381294-0.00003-1     Document Type: Chapter

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