Response of Ammonia Oxidizing Bacteria and Archaea to Acute Zinc Stress and Different Moisture Regimes in Soil

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1028-1037

  Vasileiadis, Sotirios ^a   Coppolecchia, Damiano ^b   Puglisi, Edoardo ^a   Balloi, Annalisa ^b   Mapelli, Francesca ^b   Hamon, Rebecca E ^a   Daffonchio, Daniele ^b   Trevisan, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; AMMONIA MONOOXYGENASE; ARCHAEAL DNA; BACTERIAL DNA; OXIDOREDUCTASE; WATER; ZINC;

ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; HEAT SHOCK RESPONSE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NITRIFICATION; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOIL;

AMMONIA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; DNA, ARCHAEAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; HEAT-SHOCK RESPONSE; NITRIFICATION; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; WATER; ZINC;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NITROSOMONADALES;

EID: 84867675966     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-012-0081-3     Document Type: Article

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