Redundancy and modularity in membrane-associated dissimilatory nitrate reduction in Bacillus

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue OCT, 2012, Pages

  Heylen, Kim ^a   Keltjens, Jan ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ammonification; Denitrification; Dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium (DNRA); Nitric oxide reductase

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875783599     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2012.00371     Document Type: Article

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