Connecting the dots: Linking nitrogen cycle gene expression to nitrogen fluxes in marine sediment mesocosms

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue AUG, 2014, Pages

  Bowen, Jennifer L ^a   Babbin, Andrew R ^b   Kearns, Patrick J ^a   Ward, Bess B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ammonia oxidizing archaea; AmoA; Denitrification; Estuarine sediments; NirS; Nitrification; Nitrogen cycle; Quantitative PCR

Indexed keywords

NITRITE REDUCTASE;

AMMONIA OXIDIZING ARCHAEON; AOA GENE; AOB AMOA GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENITRIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; MESOCOSM; NIRK GENE; NIRS GENE; NITROGEN CYCLE; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84987850099     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00429     Document Type: Article

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