Prevalence of anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing bacteria in contaminated groundwater

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 7217-7225

  Moore, Tara A ^a   Xing, Yangping ^b   Lazenby, Brent ^a   Lynch, Michael D J ^a   Schiff, Sherry ^a   Robertson, William D ^a   Timlin, Robert ^c   Lanza, Sadia ^d   Ryan, M Cathryn ^e   Aravena, Ramon ^a   Fortin, Danielle ^b   Clark, Ian D ^b   Neufeld, Josh D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c SNC LAVALIN INC   (Canada)

^d NATIONAL AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY OF HONDURAS   (Honduras)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA GENE; AMMONIUM ATTENUATION; ANAEROBIC OXIDATION; ANAMMOX; AUTOTROPHIC BACTERIA; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; CONTAMINATED GROUNDWATER; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DINITROGEN GAS; GROUNDWATER SITES; ISOTOPE DATA; NITROGEN CYCLES; QUANTITATIVE PCR;

BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENES; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; ISOTOPES; NITROGEN; NITROGEN REMOVAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS;

AMMONIA; BACTERIAL RNA; GROUND WATER; RNA 16S;

ABUNDANCE; AMMONIUM; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BACTERIUM; BIOMARKER; DATA SET; ELECTROKINESIS; GEL; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NITRITE; NITROGEN CYCLE; OXIDATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANAEROBIC AMMONIUM OXIDIZING BACTERIUM; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE SEQUENCE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WATER CONTAMINATION;

BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; CANADA; GROUNDWATER; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 80052251699     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es201243t     Document Type: Article

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