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Diversity, distribution, and expression of diazotroph nifH genes in oxygen-deficient waters of the Arabian Sea.
FEMS microbiology ecology - 1 Dec 2012
Jayakumar Amal, Al-Rshaidat Mamoon M D, Ward Bess B, Mulholland Margaret R
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The Arabian Sea oxygen minimum zone (OMZ), the largest suboxic region in the world's oceans, is responsible for up to half of the global mesopelagic fixed nitrogen (N) loss from the ocean via denitrification and anammox. Dinitrogen (N(2)) fixation is usually attributed to cyanobacteria in the sur...
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