Cytochrome cd1 -containing nitrite reductase encoding gene nirS as a new functional biomarker for detection of anaerobic ammonium oxidizing (anammox) bacteria

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 3547-3553

  Li, Meng ^a   Ford, Tim ^b   Li, Xiaoyan ^a   Gu, Ji Dong ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA; ANAMMOX; BACTERIAL GENOMES; DENITRIFIERS; ENCODING GENES; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NITRITE REDUCTASE; OXIDOREDUCTASES; OXYGEN MINIMUM ZONE; PCR PRIMERS; PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS; SEQUENCE IDENTITY;

AMINO ACIDS; AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BACTERIOLOGY; DENITRIFICATION; GENE ENCODING; OXYGEN; RNA; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

NITROGEN REMOVAL;

AMINO ACID; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CYTOCHROME; CYTOCHROME CD1; NITRITE REDUCTASE; NUCLEOTIDE; RNA 16S; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BACTERIUM; BIOMARKER; CYTOCHROME; GENE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NITRITE; OXYGEN MINIMUM LAYER; PHYLOGENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANAEROBIC AMMONIUM OXIDIZING BACTERIUM; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CLADISTICS; DENITRIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; NIRS GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANAEROBIOSIS; BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CYTOCHROMES; GENES, BACTERIAL; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRITE REDUCTASES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDATUS KUENENIA STUTTGARTIENSIS; CANDIDATUS SCALINDUA;

EID: 79954464368     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es103826w     Document Type: Article

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