Concurrent Activity of Anammox and Denitrifying Bacteria in the Black Sea

After the discovery of ANaerobic AMMonium OXidation (anammox) in the Black Sea in 2003, the role of heterotrophic denitrification as the main marine pathway for fixed N loss was questioned. A 3 part, 15 month time series investigating Black Sea nitrite reductase (nirS) mRNA transcripts at a single l...

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Main Authors: John B. Kirkpatrick, Clara A. Fuchsman, Evgeniy eYakushev, James T. Staley, James W. Murray
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2012.00256/full