Changes in the acetogenic population in a mesophilic anaerobic digester in response to increasing ammonia concentration

Microbes and Environments

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 347-353

  Westerholm, Maria ^a   Müller, Bettina ^a   Arthurson, Veronica ^a   Schnürer, Anna ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

10 formyltetrahydrofolate synthetase; Acetogens; Methanogenesis; Syntrophic acetate oxidation

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; AMMONIA; BACTERIAL DNA;

ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ARTICLE; BIOREACTOR; BIOTA; CHEMISTRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; TEMPERATURE;

ACETATES; AMMONIA; ANAEROBIOSIS; BIOREACTORS; BIOTA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 83055161420     PISSN: 13426311     EISSN: 13474405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1264/jsme2.ME11123     Document Type: Article

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