ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2014
Seasonality and depth distribution of the abundance and activity of ammonia oxidizing microorganisms in marine coastal sediments (North Sea).
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- Genetic and transcriptional profiles of ammonia oxidizing communities in Bohai sediments: abundance, activity, and environmental correlations.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- Using metatranscriptomics to better understand the role of microbial nitrogen cycling in coastal sediment benthic flux denitrification efficiency.Environmental microbiology reports · 2023Article
- The active functional microbes contribute differently to soil nitrification and denitrification potential under long-term fertilizer regimes in North-East China.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- High-quality bacterial genomes of a partial-nitritation/anammox system by an iterative hybrid assembly method.Microbiome · 2020Article
- Environmental Factors, More Than Spatial Distance, Explain Community Structure of Soil Ammonia-Oxidizers in Wetlands on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau.Microorganisms · 2020Article
- Responses of AOA and AOB activity and DNA/cDNA community structure to allylthiourea exposure in the water level fluctuation zone soil.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2020Article
- Composition, diversity, and activity of aerobic ammonia-oxidizing Bacteria and Archaea in the intertidal sands of a grand strand South Carolina beach.MicrobiologyOpen · 2020Article
- A Cross-System Comparison of Dark Carbon Fixation in Coastal Sediments.Global biogeochemical cycles · 2020Article
- Archaeal Sources of Intact Membrane Lipid Biomarkers in the Oxygen Deficient Zone of the Eastern Tropical South Pacific.Frontiers in microbiology · 2019Article
- High-throughput analysis of anammox bacteria in wetland and dryland soils along the altitudinal gradient in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.MicrobiologyOpen · 2018Article
- Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea and Bacteria Differentially Contribute to Ammonia Oxidation in Sediments from Adjacent Waters of Rushan Bay, China.Frontiers in microbiology · 2018Article
- Community Composition and Transcriptional Activity of Ammonia-Oxidizing Prokaryotes of SeagrassFrontiers in microbiology · 2018Article
- Small-scale variation of ammonia oxidisers within intertidal sediments dominated by ammonia-oxidising bacteria Nitrosomonas sp. amoA genes and transcripts.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Sulfide-Induced Dissimilatory Nitrate Reduction to Ammonium Supports Anaerobic Ammonium Oxidation (Anammox) in an Open-Water Unit Process Wetland.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2017Article
- Impact of Seasonal Hypoxia on Activity and Community Structure of Chemolithoautotrophic Bacteria in a Coastal Sediment.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2017Article
- Archaea Dominate the Ammonia-Oxidizing Community in Deep-Sea Sediments of the Eastern Indian Ocean-from the Equator to the Bay of Bengal.Frontiers in microbiology · 2017Article
- Ammonia-oxidizing archaea and bacteria in water columns and sediments of a highly eutrophic plateau freshwater lake.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2016Article
- Abundance and Diversity of Denitrifying and Anammox Bacteria in Seasonally Hypoxic and Sulfidic Sediments of the Saline Lake Grevelingen.Frontiers in microbiology · 2016Article
- Diversity, Abundance, and Niche Differentiation of Ammonia-Oxidizing Prokaryotes in Mud Deposits of the Eastern China Marginal Seas.Frontiers in microbiology · 2016Article
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Abstract
Microbial processes such as nitrification and anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) are important for nitrogen cycling in marine sediments. Seasonal variations of archaeal and bacterial ammonia oxidizers (AOA and AOB) and anammox bacteria, as well as the environmental factors affecting these groups, are not well studied. We have examined the seasonal and depth distribution of the abundance and potential activity of these microbial groups in coastal marine sediments of the southern North Sea. This was achieved by quantifying specific intact polar lipids as well as the abundance and gene expression of their 16S rRNA gene, the ammonia monooxygenase subunit A (amoA) gene of AOA and AOB, and the hydrazine synthase (hzsA) gene of anammox bacteria. AOA, AOB, and anammox bacteria were detected and transcriptionally active down to 12 cm sediment depth. In all seasons, the abundance of AOA was higher compared to the AOB abundance suggesting that AOA play a more dominant role in aerobic ammonia oxidation in these sediments. Anammox bacteria were abundant and active even in oxygenated and bioturbated parts of the sediment. The abundance of AOA and AOB was relatively stable with depth and over the seasonal cycle, while anammox bacteria abundance and transcriptional activity were highest in August. North Sea sediments thus seem to provide a common, stable, ecological niche for AOA, AOB, and anammox bacteria.
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