Wastewater effluent impacts ammonia-oxidizing prokaryotes of the Grand River, Canada

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 79, Issue 23, 2013, Pages 7454-7465

  Sonthiphand, Puntipar ^a   Cejudo, Eduardo ^a   Schiff, Sherry L ^a   Neufeld, Josh D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIA; AMMONIA-OXIDIZING ARCHAEA; AMMONIA-OXIDIZING PROKARYOTES; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESES (DGGE); NITRIFICATION ACTIVITY; POTENTIAL NITRIFICATION; QUANTITATIVE REAL TIME PCR; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

AMMONIA; BACTERIA; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENES; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN REMOVAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIVERS; RNA; SEDIMENTS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER;

EFFLUENTS;

EFFLUENT; GENE EXPRESSION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NITROGEN CYCLE; NUCLEIC ACID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROKARYOTE; RIVER; WASTEWATER; WATER COLUMN; WATER TREATMENT;

CANADA; GRAND RIVER [ONTARIO]; ONTARIO [CANADA];

AMMONIA;

ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CANADA; CLASSIFICATION; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIVER; WASTE WATER;

AMMONIA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ONTARIO; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIVERS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WASTE WATER;

EID: 84888250559     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02202-13     Document Type: Article

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