Differential photoinhibition of bacterial and archaeal ammonia oxidation

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 327, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 41-46

  Merbt, Stephanie N ^a,b   Stahl, David A ^c   Casamayor, Emilio O ^b   Martí, Eugènia ^b   Nicol, Graeme W ^a   Prosser, James I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE D ESTUDIS AVANÇATS DE BLANES CEAB CSIC   (Spain)

^c University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

Ammonia oxidizers; Nitrification; Photoinhibition; Primary nitrite maximum; Stream; Thaumarchaea

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA;

AMMONIA OXIDATION; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; GROWTH RATE; ILLUMINATION; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; LIGHT INTENSITY; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; NITROSOPUMILUS MARITIMUS; NITROSOSPIRA; NITROSOSPIRA MULTIFORMIS; NITROSOTALEA DEVANATERRA; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PHOTOINHIBITION; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMMONIA; ARCHAEA; DOWN-REGULATION; LIGHT; NITRITES; NITROSOMONADACEAE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDATUS NITROSOPUMILUS MARITIMUS; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; NITROSOSPIRA MULTIFORMIS;

EID: 84855511258     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2011.02457.x     Document Type: Article

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