Selective enrichment of two different types of Nitrospira-like nitrite-oxidizing bacteria from a wastewater treatment plant

Microbes and Environments

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 236-243

  Fujitani, Hirotsugu ^a   Aoi, Yoshiteru ^b,c   Tsuneda, Satoshi ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuous feeding bioreactor; Nitrification; Nitrospira; Uncultured bacteria

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; NITRITE; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOREACTOR; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYLOGENY; WASTE WATER;

BACTERIA; BIOREACTORS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; NITRITES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WASTE WATER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NITROSPIRA; UNCULTURED BACTERIUM;

EID: 84878474223     PISSN: 13426311     EISSN: 13474405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1264/jsme2.ME12209     Document Type: Article

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