Nanosilver inhibits nitrification and reduces ammonia-oxidising bacterial but not archaeal amoA gene abundance in estuarine sediments

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 500-510

  Beddow, Jessica ^a   Stolpe, Björn ^b   Cole, Paula A ^b   Lead, Jamie R ^b,c   Sapp, Melanie ^d   Lyons, Brett P ^e   Colbeck, Ian ^a   Whitby, Corinne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; AMMONIA MONOOXYGENASE; METAL NANOPARTICLE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; SILVER; WATER POLLUTANT;

ARCHAEAL GENE; ARCHAEON; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM; DRUG EFFECTS; ESTUARY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NITRIFICATION; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; SALINITY; SEDIMENT; TOXICITY; WATER POLLUTANT;

AMMONIA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; ESTUARIES; GENES, ARCHAEAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NITRIFICATION; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; SALINITY; SILVER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84994473864     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.13441     Document Type: Article

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