Bacterial community structure of a full-scale biofilter treating pig house exhaust air

Systematic and Applied Microbiology

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 344-352

  Kristiansen, Anja ^a   Pedersen, Kristina Hadulla ^b   Nielsen, Per Halkjær ^a   Nielsen, Lars Peter ^b   Nielsen, Jeppe Lund ^a   Schramm, Andreas ^b  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Air filter biofilm; Biological air filter; Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH); Full circle 16S rRNA approach

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; RNA 16S;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTEROIDETES; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BIOFILTER; COMAMONAS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPHAGA; EXHAUST GAS; FLAVOBACTERIA; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE SEQUENCE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NITROSOMONAS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ODOR CONTROL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RNA GENE; SWINE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; COMAMONAS; CYTOPHAGA; FLAVOBACTERIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; NITROSOCOCCUS MOBILIS; NITROSOMONAS; SUIDAE;

EID: 79956294797     PISSN: 07232020     EISSN: 16180984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.syapm.2010.11.022     Document Type: Article

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