Autotrophic growth of bacterial and archaeal ammonia oxidizers in freshwater sediment microcosms incubated at different temperatures

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 79, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 3076-3084

  Wu, Yucheng ^a,b   Ke, Xiubin ^b,c   Hernández, Marcela ^b   Wang, Baozhan ^a   Dumont, Marc G ^b   Jia, Zhongjun ^a   Conrad, Ralf ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA MONOOXYGENASE; AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIA; AMMONIA-OXIDIZING ARCHAEA; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; MOLECULAR COMMUNITY ANALYSIS; NICHE DIFFERENTIATION; NITROGEN TRANSFORMATIONS; STABLE-ISOTOPE PROBING;

BACTERIA; GENES; ISOTOPES; RNA; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; WATER;

AMMONIA;

AMMONIA; AUTOTROPHY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; EUTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; FRESHWATER; GROWTH RATE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROCOSM; NICHE; NITRATE; OXIDATION; PROKARYOTE; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

CHINA; TAIHU LAKE;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NITROSOMONADALES; NITROSOMONAS; NITROSOMONAS COMMUNIS; NITROSOMONAS SP.;

AMMONIA; AMMONIA MONOOXYGENASE; ARCHAEAL DNA; ARCHAEAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FRESH WATER; OXIDOREDUCTASE; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

ARCHAEON; AUTOTROPHY; BACTERIA; CHEMISTRY; CHINA; CLASSIFICATION; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LAKE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYLOGENY; SEDIMENT; TEMPERATURE;

AMMONIA; ARCHAEA; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; AUTOTROPHIC PROCESSES; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHINA; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA, ARCHAEAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; LAKES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84876336439     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00061-13     Document Type: Article

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