Interactions between anaerobic ammonium and sulfur-oxidizing bacteria in a laboratory scale model system

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 3487-3498

  Russ, Lina ^a   Speth, Daan R ^a   Jetten, Mike S M ^a   Op den Camp, Huub J M ^a   Kartal, Boran ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; NITRITE; SULFIDE; SULFUR;

ANAEROBIC GROWTH; AUTOTROPHY; BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COCULTURE; DENITRIFICATION; DRUG EFFECTS; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; METABOLISM; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; ANAEROBIOSIS; AUTOTROPHIC PROCESSES; BACTERIA; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; DENITRIFICATION; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NITRATES; NITRITES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SULFIDES; SULFUR;

EID: 84912027006     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12487     Document Type: Article

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