Distribution and abundance of archaeal and bacterial ammonia oxidizers in the sediments of the Dongjiang river, a drinking water supply for Hong Kong

Microbes and Environments

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 457-465

  Sun, Wei ^a,b,d   Xia, Chunyu ^b,d   Xu, Meiying ^b,d   Guo, Jun ^b,d   Wang, Aijie ^c   Sun, Guoping ^b,d  

^a SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b GUANGDONG INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

^c HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d State Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology   (China)

Author keywords

Ammonia oxidizing archaea (AOA); Ammonia oxidizing bacteria (AOB); amoA gene; Dongjiang river; River sediment

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; DRINKING WATER;

ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HONG KONG; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYLOGENY; RIVER; SEDIMENT;

AMMONIA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; DRINKING WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HONG KONG; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; RIVERS;

EID: 84890961215     PISSN: 13426311     EISSN: 13474405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1264/jsme2.ME13066     Document Type: Article

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