Occurrence of nitrifiers and diversity of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria in developing drinking water biofilms

Water Research

Volumn 38, Issue 20, 2004, Pages 4424-4434

  Lipponen, Mari T T ^a,b,c   Martikainen, Pertti J ^c   Vasara, Ritva E ^a,c   Servomaa, Kristina ^b   Zacheus, Outi ^a   Kontro, Merja H ^a,d  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b Finland's Environmental Administration   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Ammonia monooxygenase (amoA); Ammonia oxidizing bacteria (AOB); Biofilm; Diversity; Drinking water; Nitrite oxidizing bacteria (NOB); Particulate methane monooxygenase (pmoA)

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIOFILMS; CLONING; GENES; NITRIFICATION; POTABLE WATER; SURFACE WATERS;

BIOFILM AGES; DISTRIBUTION NETWORK; PRIMERS; SEQUENCE GROUPS;

AMMONIA;

AMMONIA; DRINKING WATER; POLYVINYLCHLORIDE;

BIOFILM; DIVERSITY INDEX; DRINKING WATER; NITRIFYING BACTERIUM; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOFILM; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NITRIFICATION; NITROSOMONAS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

METHYLOCOCCACEAE; NITROSOMONADALES; NITROSOMONAS; UNCULTURED BACTERIUM;

EID: 8844240662     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2004.08.021     Document Type: Article

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