Metagenomic analysis of ammonia-oxidizing archaea affiliated with the soil group

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue JUN, 2012, Pages

  Bartossek, Rita ^a,b   Spang, Anja ^b   Weidler, Gerhard ^c   Lanzen, Anders ^a   Schleper, Christa ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c Fa Bioanalyticum Institut für Mikrobiologie und Hygiene Dr Reisinger e U   (Austria)

Author keywords

Ammonia oxidizing archaea; Amoa; Fosmids; Metagenomics; Promoter motif; Thaumarchaeota; Transposon

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868611658     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2012.00208     Document Type: Article

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