Ammonia-oxidizing archaea have more important role than ammonia-oxidizing bacteria in ammonia oxidation of strongly acidic soils

ISME Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1032-1045

  Zhang, Li Mei ^a   Hu, Hang Wei ^a,b   Shen, Ju Pei ^a   He, Ji Zheng ^a  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

acidic soil; ammonia oxidizing archaea; ammonia oxidizing bacteria; dicyandiamide; nitrification; stable isotope probing

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CARBON; DICYANDIAMIDO; GUANIDINE DERIVATIVE;

ACID SOIL; AMMONIA; ELECTROKINESIS; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NITRATE; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN CYCLE; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; OXIDATION; PH; PHYLOGENETICS; PROKARYOTE; SOIL MICROORGANISM; STABLE ISOTOPE;

AGRICULTURE; ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; AUTOTROPHY; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; CHINA; CLASSIFICATION; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN CYCLE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYLOGENY; SOIL;

AGRICULTURE; AMMONIA; ARCHAEA; AUTOTROPHIC PROCESSES; BACTERIA; CARBON ISOTOPES; CHINA; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GUANIDINES; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN CYCLE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NITROSOMONADALES;

EID: 84859895036     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2011.168     Document Type: Article

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