Denitrifying Bacterial Communities Affect Current Production and Nitrous Oxide Accumulation in a Microbial Fuel Cell

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Vilar Sanz, Ariadna ^a   Puig, Sebastià ^a   García Lledó, Arantzazu ^a   Trias, Rosalia ^a   Balaguer, M Dolors ^a   Colprim, Jesús ^a   Bañeras, Lluís ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOFILM; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENITRIFICATION; DENITRIFYER; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL FUEL CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NARG GENE; NIRK GENE; NIRS GENE; NITROUS OXIDE EMISSION; NONHUMAN; NOSZ GENE; OLIGOTROPHA CARBOXIDOVORANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL;

BIOELECTRIC ENERGY SOURCES; BIOFILMS; DENITRIFICATION; ELECTRODES; GENE DOSAGE; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NITROUS OXIDE; PROTEOBACTERIA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

EID: 84878163363     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063460     Document Type: Article

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