Metatranscriptomic analysis of ammonia-oxidizing organisms in an estuarine bacterioplankton assemblage

ISME Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 866-878

  Hollibaugh, James T ^a   Gifford, Scott ^a   Sharma, Shalabh ^a   Bano, Nasreen ^a   Moran, Mary Ann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

ammonia oxidation; amoA; Crenarchaeota; metatranscriptome; Nitrosopumilus; Thaumarchaeota

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; RNA 16S;

AMMONIA; BACTERIOPLANKTON; COASTAL ZONE; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; GENOME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE;

ARCHAEAL GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CLASSIFICATION; CRENARCHAEOTA; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METAGENOME; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYLOGENY; PLANKTON;

AMMONIA; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CRENARCHAEOTA; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, ARCHAEAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; METAGENOME; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; PLANKTON; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDATUS NITROSOPUMILUS; CANDIDATUS NITROSOPUMILUS MARITIMUS; CRENARCHAEOTA; NITROSOMONADALES; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 79955061881     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2010.172     Document Type: Article

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