A new perspective on microbes formerly known as nitrite-oxidizing bacteria

H Daims, S Lücker, M Wagner - Trends in microbiology, 2016 - cell.com
Nitrite-oxidizing bacteria (NOB) catalyze the second step of nitrification, nitrite oxidation to
nitrate, which is an important process of the biogeochemical nitrogen cycle. NOB were …

Ecological niche differentiation among anammox bacteria

L Zhang, S Okabe - Water Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Anaerobic ammonium oxidizing (anammox) bacteria can directly convert ammonium and
nitrite to nitrogen gas anaerobically and were responsible for a substantial part of the fixed …

Activity enhancement of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and nitrite-oxidizing bacteria in activated sludge process: metabolite reduction and CO2 mitigation intensification …

A Sepehri, MH Sarrafzadeh - Applied Water Science, 2019 - Springer
The interaction of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) and nitrite-oxidizing bacteria (NOB) is
of considerable importance in nitrification process. Ecophysiological interactions between …

The role of bacterial biofilms in chronic infections

T Bjarnsholt - Apmis, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Acute infections caused by pathogenic bacteria have been studied extensively for well over
100 years. These infections killed millions of people in previous centuries, but they have …

Expanded metabolic versatility of ubiquitous nitrite-oxidizing bacteria from the genus Nitrospira

H Koch, S Lücker, M Albertsen… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Nitrospira are a diverse group of nitrite-oxidizing bacteria and among the environmentally
most widespread nitrifiers. However, they remain scarcely studied and mostly uncultured …

Micro-scale determinants of bacterial diversity in soil

M Vos, AB Wolf, SJ Jennings… - FEMS microbiology …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Soil habitats contain vast numbers of microorganisms and harbor a large portion of the
planet's biological diversity. Although high-throughput sequencing technologies continue to …

[PDF][PDF] A threshold selection method from gray-level histograms

N Otsu - Automatica, 1975 - dspace.tul.cz
Summary 16S rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes for eubacteria (EUB338), ammonium-
oxidizing bacteria (Nsm156) and nitrite-oxidizing bacteria (Nb1000) were used for the rapid …

Physiological heterogeneity in biofilms

PS Stewart, MJ Franklin - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2008 - nature.com
Biofilms contain bacterial cells that are in a wide range of physiological states. Within a
biofilm population, cells with diverse genotypes and phenotypes that express distinct …

[HTML][HTML] The occurrence and role of Nitrospira in nitrogen removal systems

MJ Mehrani, D Sobotka, P Kowal, S Ciesielski… - Bioresource …, 2020 - Elsevier
Application of the modern microbial techniques changed the paradigm about the
microorganisms performing nitrification. Numerous investigations recognized …

Biofilm, city of microbes

P Watnick, R Kolter - Journal of bacteriology, 2000 - Am Soc Microbiol
In most natural environments, association with a surface in a structure known as a biofilm is
the prevailing microbial lifestyle. Surface association is an efficient means of lingering in a …