Diversity, abundance, and activity of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and archaea in Chongming eastern intertidal sediments

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 97, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 8351-8363

  Zheng, Yanling ^a   Hou, Lijun ^a   Liu, Min ^b   Lu, Min ^b   Zhao, Hui ^c   Yin, Guoyu ^a   Zhou, Junliang ^a  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Research Center   (China)

Author keywords

Ammonia oxidizing archaea (AOA); Ammonia oxidizing bacteria (AOB); amoA gene; Intertidal sediment; Nitrification; Yangtze estuary

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIA; AMMONIA-OXIDIZING ARCHAEA; AMMONIA-OXIDIZING BACTERIA AND ARCHAEA; AMMONIA-OXIDIZING PROKARYOTES; INTERTIDAL SEDIMENTS; NITRATE CONCENTRATION; POTENTIAL NITRIFICATION; YANGTZE ESTUARY;

AMMONIA; BACTERIA; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN REMOVAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEDIMENTS;

GENES;

AMMONIA; AMMONIA MONOOXYGENASE ALPHA; BACTERIAL DNA; GENOMIC DNA; NITRATE; NITRITE; ORGANIC CARBON; PHOSPHORUS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNSPECIFIC MONOOXYGENASE;

ABUNDANCE; AMMONIA; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; GENE; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN; ORGANIC CARBON; OXIDATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUMMER; TIDAL FLAT; WINTER;

AMMONIA OXIDIZING ARCHAEON; AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE SEQUENCE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NITRIFICATION; NITROSOMONAS; NITROSOSPIRA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SUMMER; WINTER;

CHINA; CHONGMING ISLAND; SHANGHAI; YANGTZE ESTUARY;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; NITROSOMONADALES; PROKARYOTA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

AMMONIA; ARCHAEA; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIODIVERSITY; CHINA; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; WETLANDS;

EID: 84883551329     PISSN: 01757598     EISSN: 14320614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-012-4512-3     Document Type: Article

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