Abundance and genetic diversity of nifH gene sequences in anthropogenically affected Brazilian Mangrove sediments

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 7960-7967

  Dias, Armando Cavalcante Franco ^a   Pereira e Silva, Michele de Cassia ^c   Cotta, Simone Raposo ^b   Dini Andreote, Francisco ^c   Soares, Fábio Lino ^a   Salles, Joana Falcão ^c   Azevedo, João Lúcio ^a   Van Elsas, Jan Dirk ^c   Andreote, Fernando Dini ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b URFJ/RJ   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENES; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FIXATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEDIMENTS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

COAST LINES; COMMUNITY IS; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; FUNCTIONAL GENES; GENE DIVERSITY; GENE SEQUENCES; GENETICS DIVERSITIES; MANGROVE SEDIMENTS; NIFH GENES; QUANTITATIVE PCR;

OIL SPILLS;

ABUNDANCE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; COAST; COASTAL SEDIMENT; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DISTURBANCE; GENE; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; LAND-SEA INTERACTION; MANGROVE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NITRIFYING BACTERIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BRAZIL; SAO PAULO [BRAZIL];

EID: 84868618184     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02273-12     Document Type: Article

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