Biogeography of anaerobic ammonia-oxidizing (anammox) bacteria

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue AUG, 2014, Pages

  Sonthiphand, Puntipar ^a   Hall, Michael W ^a   Neufeld, Josh D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

16S rrna gene; Anammox bacteria; Biogeography; Brocadia; Co occurrence; Planctomycetes; Scalindua

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905653262     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00399     Document Type: Article

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