Drivers of archaeal ammonia-oxidizing communities in soil

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue JUN, 2012, Pages

  Zhalnina, Kateryna ^a   Dörr de Quadros, Patrícia ^b   Camargo, FlavioA O ^b   Triplett, Eric W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Ammonia monooxygenase; Ammonia oxidizing archaea; Soil

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868625701     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2012.00210     Document Type: Article

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