Molecular Tools for the Detection of Nitrogen Cycling Archaea

Figure 1

Alignment of nosZ gene fragments from 6 members of the order Halobacteriales, Ferroglobus placidus, and Pyrobaculum calidifontis, with binding sites of the novel primer pair arc-Nos-f/-r shaded. Reference positions given at the top refer to the nosZ gene of Halogeometricum borinquense.