Abundance of amoA genes of ammonia-oxidizing archaea and bacteria in activated sludge of full-scale wastewater treatment plants

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 3694-3701

  Limpiyakorn, Tawan ^a   Sonthiphand, Puntipar ^a   Rongsayamanont, Chaiwat ^a   Polprasert, Chongrak ^b  

^a CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b THAMMASAT UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Activated sludge; Ammonia oxidizing archaea; Ammonia oxidizing bacteria; AmoA gene; Wastewater treatment plant

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; AMMONIA-OXIDIZING BACTERIA; AMMONIUM CONCENTRATIONS; AMOA GENE; ARCHAEA; FOUR-ORDER; LIMIT OF DETECTION; P-VALUES; QUANTITATIVE REAL TIME PCR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

AMMONIA; AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; BACTERIOLOGY; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; GENES; MICROORGANISMS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECLAMATION; SEWAGE PUMPING PLANTS; TOXICITY; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

EFFLUENTS;

AMMONIA;

ABUNDANCE; ACTIVATED SLUDGE; AMMONIUM; BACTERIUM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EFFLUENT; GENE EXPRESSION; MAGNITUDE; OXIDATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; AMMONIA OXIDIZING ARCHAEA; AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIUM; AMOA GENE; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFLUENT; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

AMMONIA; ARCHAEA; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; DNA; GENES, ARCHAEAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; NITROGEN; OXIDOREDUCTASES; OXYGEN; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEWAGE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION;

NITROSOMONADALES;

EID: 78651474568     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2010.11.085     Document Type: Article

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