Cultivation of a highly enriched ammonia-oxidizing archaeon of thaumarchaeotal group I.1b from an agricultural soil

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1528-1543

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

^a Chungbuk National University   (South Korea)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c Cornell University ^*  (United States)

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

^e Chonnam National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA;

AGRICULTURE; ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; AUTOTROPHY; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NITRIFICATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; RNA GENE; SOIL; STATISTICS; WATER SUPPLY;

AGRICULTURE; AMMONIA; ARCHAEA; AUTOTROPHIC PROCESSES; BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; GENES, RRNA; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRIFICATION; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; WATER RESOURCES;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NITROSOMONADALES;

EID: 84861939476     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2012.02740.x     Document Type: Article

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