Microbial Community Composition and Ultrastructure of Granules from a Full-Scale Anammox Reactor

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 118-131

  Gonzalez Gil, Graciela ^a,b   Sougrat, Rachid ^a   Behzad, Ali R ^a   Lens, Piet N L ^b   Saikaly, Pascal E ^a  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anammox; Autotrophic denitrification; Granular sludge; Granules; Heterotrophic denitrification; Microbial aggregates; Polygon shaped bacteria; Pyrosequencing

Indexed keywords

ANAEROLINEA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; CALCIUM PHOSPHATE; RNA 16S;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARCHAEON; BIOREACTOR; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROCEDURES; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WATER MANAGEMENT;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOREACTORS; CALCIUM PHOSPHATES; MICROBIOTA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84938205269     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-014-0546-7     Document Type: Article

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