Molecular biological and isotopic biogeochemical prognoses of the nitrification-driven dynamic microbial nitrogen cycle in hadopelagic sediments

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 3087-3107

  Nunoura, Takuro ^a   Nishizawa, Manabu ^a   Kikuchi, Tohru ^b   Tsubouchi, Taishi ^a   Hirai, Miho ^a   Koide, Osamu ^a   Miyazaki, Junichi ^a   Hirayama, Hisako ^a   Koba, Keisuke ^c   Takai, Ken ^a  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARCHAEON; BACTERIUM; DENITRIFICATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NITRIFICATION; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYLOGENY; SEA; SEDIMENT;

AMMONIA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; DENITRIFICATION; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRATES; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN; OCEANS AND SEAS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL;

EID: 84884250601     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12152     Document Type: Article

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