Community composition of ammonia-oxidizing archaea from surface and anoxic depths of oceanic oxygen minimum zones

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue JUL, 2013, Pages

  Peng, Xuefeng ^a   Jayakumar, Amal ^a   Ward, Bess B ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ammonia Oxidizing archaea; Arabian sea; Community composition; Eastern Tropical South Pacific; Oxygen minimum zone; QPCR

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED OXYGEN; SURFACE WATER;

AMMONIA MONOOXYGENASE GENE SUBUNITA GENE; AMMONIA OXIDIZING ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; DNA MICROARRAY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHY; MICROARRAY HYBRIDIZATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OCEAN ENVIRONMENT; OXYGEN MINIMUM ZONE; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REDUNDANCY ANALYSIS; SALINITY; TEMPERATURE;

ARCHAEA;

EID: 84885342987     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00177     Document Type: Article

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