Profiling gene expression to distinguish the likely active diazotrophs from a sea of genetic potential in marine sediments

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 3128-3142

  Brown, S M ^a   Jenkins, B D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRITE REDUCTASE; NITROGENASE REDUCTASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; ESTUARY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHYLOGENY; SEDIMENT;

BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; ESTUARIES; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; NITRITE REDUCTASES; NITROGEN FIXATION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84907865448     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12403     Document Type: Article

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