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Identifying Potential Mechanisms Enabling Acidophily in the Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaeon "Candidatus Nitrosotalea devanaterra".
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 May 2016
Lehtovirta-Morley Laura E, Sayavedra-Soto Luis A, Gallois Nicolas, Schouten Stefan, Stein Lisa Y, Prosser James I, Nicol Graeme W
Abstract excerpt
Ammonia oxidation is the first and rate-limiting step in nitrification and is dominated by two distinct groups of microorganisms in soil: ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) and ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB). AOA are often more abundant than AOB and dominate activity in acid soils. The mechanism of ammonia oxidation under acidic conditions has been a long-standing paradox. While high rates of ammonia oxidation are...
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