Expanding our view of genomic diversity in CandidatusAccumulibacter clades

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1574-1585

  Skennerton, Connor T ^a,b,c   Barr, Jeremy J ^b,d   Slater, Frances R ^b   Bond, Philip L ^b   Tyson, Gene W ^a,b  

^a Australian Centre for Ecogenomics   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE; ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE (NAD(P)+); CARBON; NITRATE REDUCTASE; PHOSPHORUS; POLYPHOSPHATE; WASTE WATER;

BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BIOREACTOR; CHEMISTRY; DENITRIFICATION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METAGENOMICS; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; WASTE WATER; WATER MANAGEMENT;

ALDEHYDE OXIDOREDUCTASES; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BIOREACTORS; CARBON; DENITRIFICATION; ETHANOL; GENETIC VARIATION; METAGENOMICS; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHOSPHORUS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; POLYPHOSPHATES; WASTE WATER; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84928235352     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12582     Document Type: Article

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