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Diversity and abundance of nitrate assimilation genes in the northern South china sea.
Microbial ecology - 1 Nov 2008
Cai Haiyuan, Jiao Nianzhi
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Marine heterotrophic microorganisms that assimilate nitrate play an important role in nitrogen and carbon cycling in the water column. The nasA gene, encoding the nitrate assimilation enzyme, was selected as a functional marker to examine the nitrate assimilation community in the South China Sea (SCS). PCR amplification, restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) screening, and phylogenetic analysis of nasA...
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