Quantification of ammonia oxidation rates and the distribution of ammonia-oxidizing Archaea and Bacteria in marine sediment depth profiles from Catalina Island, California

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue JUL, 2012, Pages

  Beman, J M ^a   Bertics, Victoria J ^b,c   Braunschweiler, Thomas ^b,d   Wilson, Jesse M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

amoA; Archaea; Bioturbation; Nitrification; Sediments

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868625747     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2012.00263     Document Type: Article

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