Nitrogen losses in anoxic marine sediments driven by Thioploca-anammox bacterial consortia

Nature

Volumn 500, Issue 7461, 2013, Pages 194-198

  Prokopenko, M G ^a,b   Hirst, M B ^b   De Brabandere, L ^d   Lawrence, D J P ^a   Berelson, W M ^b   Granger, J ^e   Chang, B X ^f   Dawson, S ^c   Crane III, E J ^a   Chong, L ^b   Thamdrup, B ^d   Townsend Small, A ^g   Sigman, D M ^f  

^a POMONA COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^f PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN; ORGANIC CARBON; RNA 16S;

AMMONIUM; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BACTERIUM; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MARINE SEDIMENT; METABOLISM; METABOLITE; METHANOTROPHY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FIXATION; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; ORGANIC MATTER; OXIDATION; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; THERMODYNAMICS;

ANAMMOX BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENITRIFICATION; ELECTRON; ENERGY YIELD; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE SEQUENCE; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; MICROBIAL METABOLISM; NITRATE UPTAKE; NITROGEN CYCLE; NONHUMAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYLOGENY; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; SULFUR CYCLE; SYMBIOSIS; THERMODYNAMICS; THIOPLOCA;

ANAEROBIOSIS; BACTERIA; CARBON; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYLOGENY; SULFUR; THIOTRICHACEAE;

CALIFORNIA; SOLEDAD BASIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84881446358     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12365     Document Type: Article

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