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Original article

Classification of chemoautotrophic ammonia-oxidizing bacteria using pyruvate kinase genes as high resolution phylogenetic markers

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Pages 284-290 | Received 25 Mar 2005, Accepted 28 Dec 2005, Published online: 17 Dec 2010

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