Genomics and ecophysiology of heterotrophic nitrogen-fixing bacteria isolated from estuarine surface water

mBio

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Bentzon Tilia, Mikkel ^a,c   Severin, Ina ^a,d   Hansen, Lars H ^b   Riemann, Lasse ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; ETHYLENE; GLUCOSE; NITROGEN; NITROGENASE; OXYGEN; SURFACE WATER; BACTERIAL DNA; SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BALTIC SEA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; ESTUARY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; HETEROTROPHY; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI; RAOULTELLA; RAOULTELLA ORNITHINOLYTICA; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS PALUSTRIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; BACTERIAL GENOME; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS;

DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GLUCOSE; HETEROTROPHIC PROCESSES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FIXATION; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84940853212     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00929-15     Document Type: Article

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