Comparison of lipid biomarker and gene abundance characterizing the archaeal ammonia-oxidizing community in flooded soils

In the last years, archaea have been identified as key players in global N cycling, especially in nitrification. Ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) are postulated to belong to the new phylum Thaumarchaeota for which the lipid crenarchaeol should be specific. The ratios between two independent markers f...

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Main Authors: Bannert, A., Mueller-Niggemann, C., Kleineidam, K., Wissing, L., Cao, Z., Schwark, Lorenz, Schloter, M.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Springer 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/52137