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A microdiversity study of anammox bacteria reveals a novel Candidatus Scalindua phylotype in marine oxygen minimum zones.
Environmental microbiology - 1 Nov 2008
Woebken Dagmar, Lam Phyllis, Kuypers Marcel M M, Naqvi S Wajih A, Kartal Boran, Strous Marc, Jetten Mike S M, Fuchs Bernhard M, Amann Rudolf
Abstract excerpt
The anaerobic oxidation of ammonium (anammox) contributes significantly to the global loss of fixed nitrogen and is carried out by a deep branching monophyletic group of bacteria within the phylum Planctomycetes. Various studies have implicated anammox to be the most important process responsible for the nitrogen loss in the marine oxygen minimum zones (OMZs) with a low diversity of marine anammox bacteria. This...
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