A study of nucleotide sequences of nifH genes of some methanotrophic bacteria

Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 425-432

  Boulygina, E S ^a   Kuznetsov, B B ^a   Marusina, A I ^a   Tourova, T P ^b   Kravchenko, I K ^b   Bykova, S A ^b   Kolganova, T V ^a   Galchenko, V F ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOENGINEERING   (Russian Federation)

^b RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Methanotrophic bacteria; nifH; Nitrogen fixation; Nitrogenase genes; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; METHYLOBACTER; METHYLOCOCCACEAE; METHYLOCOCCUS; METHYLOCOCCUS CAPSULATUS; METHYLOCYSTACEAE; METHYLOCYSTIS; METHYLOMONAS; METHYLOSINUS;

EID: 8744307887     PISSN: 00262617     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1019893526803     Document Type: Article

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