The depth-specific significance and relative abundance of anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing bacteria in estuarine sediments (Medway Estuary, UK)

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 19-29

  Rooks, Christine ^a   Schmid, Markus C ^b,c   Mehsana, Wahida ^a   Trimmer, Mark ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anammox; DNRA; Estuarine sediments; Fluorescence in situ hybridization

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; NITRATE; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE;

AMMONIUM; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BACTERIUM; BIOTURBATION; DENITRIFICATION; ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLUORESCENCE; HYBRIDIZATION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; NITRATE; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; REDUCTION; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; SEDIMENT; UNITED KINGDOM; WATER POLLUTANT;

BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; CARBON DIOXIDE; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GREAT BRITAIN; NITRATES; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ENGLAND; KENT; MEDWAY ESTUARY; UNITED KINGDOM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84857920058     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2011.01266.x     Document Type: Article

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