Current insights into the autotrophic thaumarchaeal ammonia oxidation in acidic soils

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 55, Issue , 2012, Pages 146-154

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

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Acidic soils; Ammonia oxidation; Ammonia oxidizing archaea; Ammonia oxidizing bacteria; Nitrification; Thaumarchaea

Indexed keywords

ACIDIC SOILS; AMMONIA OXIDATION; AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIA; ARCHAEA; THAUMARCHAEA;

BACTERIA; DENITRIFICATION; ISOTOPES; NITRIFICATION; OXIDATION; SOILS;

AMMONIA;

ACID SOIL; AMMONIA; AUTOTROPHY; HETEROTROPHY; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN CYCLE; OXIDATION; PHYLOGENETICS; PROKARYOTE; SOIL MICROORGANISM; STABLE ISOTOPE; SUBSTRATE;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NITROSOMONADALES;

EID: 84865969236     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2012.06.006     Document Type: Review

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