Nitrification of archaeal ammonia oxidizers in acid soils is supported by hydrolysis of urea

ISME Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1978-1984

  Lu, Lu ^a,b   Han, Wenyan ^c   Zhang, Jinbo ^d   Wu, Yucheng ^a   Wang, Baozhan ^a   Lin, Xiangui ^a   Zhu, Jianguo ^a   Cai, Zucong ^d   Jia, Zhongjun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOIL SCIENCE   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^d NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

15N pool enrichment; Acid soil; Archaeal ammonia oxidation; Pyrosequencing; Urea hydrolysis

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; NITROGEN; UREA;

ACID SOIL; AMMONIA; ELECTROKINESIS; FERTILIZER; FOREST SOIL; HYDROLYSIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NITRIFICATION; OXIDATION; PH; PROKARYOTE; UREA;

ARCHAEAL GENE; ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENETICS; HYDROLYSIS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NITRIFICATION; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYLOGENY; RNA GENE; SOIL; TREE;

AMMONIA; ARCHAEA; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENES, ARCHAEAL; GENES, RRNA; HYDROLYSIS; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TREES; UREA;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NITROSOMONADALES;

EID: 84867744801     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2012.45     Document Type: Article

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