Quantitative analyses of the composition and abundance of ammonia-oxidizing archaea and ammonia-oxidizing bacteria in eight full-scale biological wastewater treatment plants

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 138, Issue , 2013, Pages 285-296

  Gao, Jing Feng ^a   Luo, Xin ^a   Wu, Gui Xia ^a   Li, Ting ^a   Peng, Yong Zhen ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Ammonia oxidizing archaea; Ammonia oxidizing bacteria; AmoA Gene; Wastewater treatment plants

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; BACTERIA; GENETIC ENGINEERING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEWAGE PUMPING PLANTS; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIA; AMMONIA-OXIDIZING ARCHAEA; BIOLOGICAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT; CLONING AND SEQUENCING; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE REAL TIME PCR; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

GENES;

AMMONIA;

BACTERIUM; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; GENE EXPRESSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; AMMONIA OXIDIZING ARCHAEON; AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; AUTOTROPHY; BACTERIAL GENE; ECOTYPE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NITROSOMONAS; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; NITROSOSPIRA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES COMPOSITION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

NITROSOMONADALES; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; NITROSOMONAS OLIGOTROPHA;

EID: 84877016779     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: 18732976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2013.03.176     Document Type: Article

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