Relevance of Nitrospira for nitrite oxidation in a marine recirculation aquaculture system and physiological features of a Nitrospira marina-like isolate

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2536-2547

  Keuter, Sabine ^a   Kruse, Myriam ^b   Lipski, André ^b   Spieck, Eva ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; FATTY ACID; NITRATE; NITRITE; RNA 16S;

AQUACULTURE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOFILM; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NITRIFICATION; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYLOGENY; RNA GENE;

AQUACULTURE; BACTERIA; BIOFILMS; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; FATTY ACIDS; GENES, RRNA; NITRATES; NITRIFICATION; NITRITES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); IVA; NITROSPIRA; NITROSPIRA MARINA;

EID: 80052644328     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2011.02525.x     Document Type: Article

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