Low-dissolved-oxygen nitrifying systems exploit ammonia-oxidizing bacteria with unusually high yields

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 7787-7796

  Bellucci, Micol ^a,b   Ofiţeru, Irina D ^a,c   Graham, David W ^a   Head, Ian M ^a   Curtis, Thomas P ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA GENE; AERATION RATE; AIR FLOW-RATE; AMMONIA OXIDATION; AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIA; CARBON FOOTPRINT; CONTINUOUS-FLOW REACTORS; DISSOLVED OXYGEN CONCENTRATIONS; DOMINANT SPECIES; ELEVATED LEVEL; FULL-SCALE PLANTS; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; HIGH YIELD; MIXOTROPHIC; NITRIFICATION FAILURE; NITRIFYING SYSTEMS; NITROSOMONAS; OPERATIONAL COSTS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PROCESS;

AMMONIA; DENITRIFICATION; ELECTROPHORESIS; GAS EMISSIONS; GAS PLANTS; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GREENHOUSE GASES; NITRIFICATION; OXIDATION; RNA; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

DISSOLVED OXYGEN;

AMMONIA; BACTERIAL DNA; OXYGEN; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

AIRFLOW; AMMONIA; BACTERIUM; BIOREACTOR; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; EMISSION CONTROL; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GREENHOUSE GAS; NITRIFICATION; OXIDATION; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; BIOREACTOR; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NITRIFICATION; NITROSOMONAS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYLOGENY; WATER MANAGEMENT;

AMMONIA; BIOREACTORS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRIFICATION; NITROSOMONAS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 83155161712     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00330-11     Document Type: Article

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