Putative Mixotrophic Nitrifying-Denitrifying Gammaproteobacteria Implicated in Nitrogen Cycling Within the Ammonia/Oxygen Transition Zone of an Oil Sands Pit Lake

• Published in: Frontiers in microbiology Vol. 10; no. OCT; p. 2435
• Main Authors: Mori, Jiro F., Chen, Lin-Xing, Jessen, Gerdhard L., Rudderham, Sarah B., McBeth, Joyce M., Lindsay, Matthew B. J., Slater, Gregory F., Banfield, Jillian F., Warren, Lesley A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Frontiers Research Foundation 24.10.2019; Frontiers Media S.A
• Subjects: BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; Microbiology; nitrifier denitrification; nitrogen cycle; oil sands; shotgun metagenomics; tailings deposits

Anthropogenically-impacted environments offer the opportunity to discover novel microbial species and metabolisms, which may be undetectable in natural systems. Here, a combined metagenomic and geochemical study in Base Mine Lake, Alberta, Canada, which is the only oil sands end pit lake to date, re...