Denitrifying alphaproteobacteria from the arabian sea that express nosZ, the gene encoding nitrous oxide reductase, in oxic and suboxic waters

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 79, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2670-2681

  Wyman, Michael ^a   Hodgson, Sylvia ^a   Bird, Clare ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MARINE ECOSYSTEM; NITROUS OXIDE; OLIGOTROPHIC WATERS; OXYGEN MINIMUM ZONE; QUANTITATIVE PCR; SUBOXIC WATER; TRICHODESMIUM; UPWELLING REGION;

GENE ENCODING; GREENHOUSE GASES; NITROGEN OXIDES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SURFACE WATERS;

DENITRIFICATION;

NITROUS OXIDE REDUCTASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; RNA 16S; SEA WATER;

BENTHOS; BIOGEOGRAPHICAL REGION; DENITRIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GREENHOUSE GAS; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; OCEAN BASIN; PELAGIC ECOSYSTEM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEAWATER; SURFACE WATER; UPWELLING;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; AQUATIC SPECIES; ARTICLE; DENITRIFICATION; GENETICS; INDIAN OCEAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE EAST; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NITRIFICATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; DENITRIFICATION; INDIAN OCEAN; MIDDLE EAST; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRIFICATION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

ARABIAN SEA; INDIAN OCEAN;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; CYANOBACTERIA; TRICHODESMIUM;

EID: 84876193013     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.03705-12     Document Type: Article

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