Microbial nitrogen cycling in estuaries: from genes to ecosystem processes

J Damashek, CA Francis - Estuaries and Coasts, 2018 - Springer
Nitrogen (N) is one of the primary nutrients required to build biomass and is therefore in high
demand in aquatic ecosystems. Estuaries, however, are frequently inundated with high …

Planktonic marine archaea

AE Santoro, RA Richter… - Annual review of marine …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Archaea are ubiquitous and abundant members of the marine plankton. Once thought of as
rare organisms found in exotic extremes of temperature, pressure, or salinity, archaea are …

Unifying the global phylogeny and environmental distribution of ammonia-oxidising archaea based on amoA genes

RJE Alves, BQ Minh, T Urich, A von Haeseler… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Ammonia-oxidising archaea (AOA) are ubiquitous and abundant in nature and play a major
role in nitrogen cycling. AOA have been studied intensively based on the amoA gene …

Nitrosopumilus maritimus gen. nov., sp. nov., Nitrosopumilus cobalaminigenes sp. nov., Nitrosopumilus oxyclinae sp. nov., and Nitrosopumilus ureiphilus sp. nov., four marine …

W Qin, KR Heal, R Ramdasi… - … of systematic and …, 2017 - microbiologyresearch.org
Four mesophilic, neutrophilic, and aerobic marine ammonia-oxidizing archaea, designated
strains SCM1T, HCA1T, HCE1T and PS0T, were isolated from a tropical marine fish tank …

Alternative strategies of nutrient acquisition and energy conservation map to the biogeography of marine ammonia-oxidizing archaea

W Qin, Y Zheng, F Zhao, Y Wang, H Urakawa… - The ISME …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) are among the most abundant and ubiquitous
microorganisms in the ocean, exerting primary control on nitrification and nitrogen oxides …

Phylogenetic divergence and adaptation of Nitrososphaeria across lake depths and freshwater ecosystems

M Ren, J Wang - The ISME Journal, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Thaumarchaeota (now the class Nitrososphaeria in the phylum Thermoproteota in GTDB
taxonomy) are abundant across marine and soil habitats; however, their genomic diversity …

Biogeography of anaerobic ammonia-oxidizing (anammox) bacteria

P Sonthiphand, MW Hall, JD Neufeld - Frontiers in microbiology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Anaerobic ammonia-oxidizing (anammox) bacteria are able to oxidize ammonia and reduce
nitrite to produce N2 gas. After being discovered in a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) …

Influence of temperature, pH, and salinity on membrane lipid composition and TEX86 of marine planktonic thaumarchaeal isolates

FJ Elling, M Könneke, M Mußmann, A Greve… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2015 - Elsevier
Marine ammonia-oxidizing archaea of the phylum Thaumarchaeota are a cosmopolitan
group of microorganisms representing a major fraction of the picoplankton in the ocean. The …

Expansion of Thaumarchaeota habitat range is correlated with horizontal transfer of ATPase operons

B Wang, W Qin, Y Ren, X Zhou, MY Jung… - The ISME …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Thaumarchaeota are responsible for a significant fraction of ammonia oxidation in the
oceans and in soils that range from alkaline to acidic. However, the adaptive mechanisms …

Geochemical factors impacting nitrifying communities in sandy sediments

SJ Wilson, B Song, IC Anderson - Environmental Microbiology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Sandy sediment beaches covering 70% of non‐ice‐covered coastlines are important
ecosystems for nutrient cycling along the land‐ocean continuum. Subterranean estuaries …