Thaumarchaeotal signature gene distribution in sediments of the northern South China sea: An indicator of the metabolic intersection of the marine carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus cycles?

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 79, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2137-2147

  Dang, Hongyue ^a,b   Zhou, Haixia ^a   Yang, Jinying ^a   Ge, Huangmin ^c   Jiao, Nianzhi ^b   Luan, Xiwu ^d,e   Zhang, Chuanlun ^c   Klotz, Martin G ^f  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM   (China)

^b XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Tongji University   (China)

^d Ministry of Natural Resources of the People's Republic of China   (China)

^e QINGDAO INSTITUTE OF MARINE GEOLOGY   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROBIC AMMONIA OXIDATIONS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; ECOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; NORTHERN SOUTH CHINA SEA; PHOSPHORUS CYCLES; QUANTITATIVE REAL TIME PCR; SEDIMENT PORE WATER;

CARBON; METABOLISM; NITROGEN; NITROGEN OXIDES; PHOSPHORUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESERVOIRS (WATER); RNA; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; WATER;

GENES;

AMMONIA MONOOXYGENASE; ARCHAEAL DNA; CARBON; NITROGEN; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PHOSPHORUS; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

AMMONIA; CARBON CYCLE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; MARGINAL SEA; MARINE SEDIMENT; NITRITE; NITROGEN CYCLE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; OXIDATION; PHOSPHORUS CYCLE; POREWATER; SEAWATER; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SILT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; BIOTA; CHEMISTRY; CHINA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METAGENOME; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEDIMENT;

ARCHAEA; BIOTA; CARBON; CHINA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, ARCHAEAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; METAGENOME; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHOSPHORUS; PHYLOGENY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

ARCHAEA;

EID: 84875549275     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.03204-12     Document Type: Article

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