Microbial metatranscriptomics in a permanent marine oxygen minimum zone

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 23-40

  Stewart, Frank J ^a   Ulloa, Osvaldo ^c   Delong, Edward F ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; AMMONIA MONOOXYGENASE; ARCHAEAL RNA; BACTERIAL RNA; OXIDOREDUCTASE; OXYGEN; RNA 16S; SEA WATER; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CHILE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METAGENOME; MICROBIOLOGY; NITRIFICATION; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION;

AMMONIA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CHILE; METAGENOME; NITRIFICATION; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; OXYGEN; RNA, ARCHAEAL; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDATUS KUENENIA STUTTGARTIENSIS; CANDIDATUS NITROSOPUMILUS MARITIMUS;

EID: 84855287323     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02400.x     Document Type: Article

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