Enrichment and characterization of an autotrophic ammonia-oxidizing archaeon of mesophilic crenarchaeal group I.1a from an agricultural soil

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 8635-8647

  Jung, Man Young ^a   Park, Soo Je ^a   Min, Deullae ^b   Kim, Jin Seog ^b   Rijpstra, W Irene C ^c   Damsté, Jaap S Sinninghe ^c   Kim, Geun Joong ^d   Madsen, Eugene L ^e   Rhee, Sung Keun ^a  

^a Chungbuk National University   (South Korea)

^b Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science   (South Korea)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^d Chonnam National University   (South Korea)

^e Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY; AGRICULTURAL SOILS; AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIA; ARCHAEA; ARCHAEAL; ARCHAEAL CELLS; ARCHAEON; CLONE LIBRARY; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTIONS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE SIMILARITY; MESOPHILIC; RESPIROMETRY; SEQUENCE COMPARISONS; SINGLE SEQUENCES;

ASSAYS; CELL CULTURE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENES; GLYCEROL; GREENHOUSE GASES; MICROORGANISMS; PRODUCTIVITY; RNA; SOILS;

AMMONIA;

AMMONIA; AMMONIA MONOOXYGENASE; ARCHAEAL DNA; ARCHAEAL RNA; NITROUS OXIDE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; AGRICULTURAL SOIL; AMMONIA; BACTERIUM; CLONE; FLUORESCENCE; GREENHOUSE GAS; GROWTH RATE; HYBRIDIZATION; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; NITRIFICATION; OXYGEN; PROKARYOTE; REACTION KINETICS; SOIL MICROORGANISM; STOICHIOMETRY;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PH; PHYLOGENY; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

AMMONIA; ARCHAEA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, ARCHAEAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, RRNA; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROUS OXIDE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; RNA, ARCHAEAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 83155173396     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.05787-11     Document Type: Article

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