Metagenomic analysis of nitrogen and methane cycling in the Arabian Sea oxygen minimum zone

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Volumn 2016, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Lüke, Claudia ^a   Speth, Daan R ^a   Kox, Martine A R ^a   Villanueva, Laura ^b   Jetten, Mike S M ^a,c,d  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d Soehngen Institute of Anaerobic Microbiology   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anammox; Functional marker genes; Metagenomics; Methane cycle; Microbial; Nitrogen cycle; Oxygen minimum zone; Thaumarchaeota

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; METHANE; METHYLPHOSPHONIC ACID; NITROGEN; RNA 16S; RNA POLYMERASE;

AGAR GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; DENITRIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; METAGENOMICS; METHANOGENESIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN CYCLE; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION; OXYGEN MINIMUM ZONE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; THAUMARCHAEOTA;

EID: 84966454858     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.1924     Document Type: Article

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