Ubiquity and Diversity of Complete Ammonia Oxidizers (Comammox)

• Published in: Applied and environmental microbiology Vol. 84; no. 24
• Main Authors: Xia, Fei, Wang, Jian-Gong, Zhu, Ting, Zou, Bin, Rhee, Sung-Keun, Quan, Zhe-Xue
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Society for Microbiology 15.12.2018
• Subjects: Abundance; Ammonia; Ammonia monooxygenase; Ammonia-oxidizing bacteria; AmoA gene; Archaea; Biodiversity; Coastal waters; Data processing; Diversity indices; Microbial Ecology; Microbiology; Microorganisms; Nitrification; Nitrogen; Nitrogen cycle; Oxidation; Oxidizing agents; Phylogeny; Polymerase chain reaction; Primers; Sludge; Water analysis; Water sampling; diversity; AOA; metagenome; comammox; AOB; partial nested PCR

The discovery of complete ammonia oxidizers (comammox), which oxidize ammonia to nitrate via nitrite, refutes the century-old paradigm that nitrification requires the activity of two types of microbes and redefines a key process in the biogeochemical nitrogen cycle. Understanding the functional rela...