ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2015
Examining the impact of acetylene on N-fixation and the active sediment microbial community.
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- Nitrogen fixation and diazotroph diversity in groundwater systems.The ISME journal · 2023Article
- Autochthonous carbon loading of macroalgae stimulates benthic biological nitrogen fixation rates in shallow coastal marine sediments.Frontiers in microbiology · 2023Article
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- Molybdenum-Based Diazotrophy in a Sphagnum Peatland in Northern Minnesota.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2017Article
- Nitrogen fixing bacterial diversity in a tropical estuarine sediments.World journal of microbiology & biotechnology · 2017Article
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Abstract
Here we examined the impact of a commonly employed method used to measure nitrogen fixation, the acetylene reduction assay (ARA), on a marine sediment community. Historically, the ARA technique has been broadly employed for its ease of use, in spite of numerous known artifacts. To gauge the severity of these effects in a natural environment, we employed high-throughput 16S rRNA gene sequencing to detect differences in acetylene-treated sediments vs. non-treated control sediments after a 7 h incubation. Within this short time period, significant differences were seen across all activity of microbes identified in the sediment, implying that the changes induced by acetylene occur quickly. The results have important implications for our understanding of marine nitrogen budgets. Moreover, because the ARA technique has been widely used in terrestrial and freshwater habitats, these results may be applicable to other ecosystems.
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