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ArticleMicrobiologyOpen2020

Composition, diversity, and activity of aerobic ammonia-oxidizing Bacteria and Archaea in the intertidal sands of a grand strand South Carolina beach.

Harrison B Taylor, Harry D Kurtz

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Article in MicrobiologyOpen, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Harrison B TaylorDepartment of Biological Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States.
Harry D KurtzDepartment of Biological Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-2592-3074
Clemson University · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Aerobic ammonia oxidation to nitrite has been established as an important ecosystem process in regulating the level of nitrogen in marine ecosystems. This process is carried out by ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) within the classes Betaproteobacteria and Gammaproteobacteria and ammonia-oxidizing Archaea (AOA) from the phylum Thaumarchaeota, and the latter of which has been established as more prevalent in marine systems. This study investigated the presence, abundance, and activity of these groups of microbes at a beach near Springmaid Pier in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, through the implementation of next generation sequencing, quantitative PCR (qPCR), and microcosm experiments to monitor activity. Sequencing analysis revealed a diverse community of ammonia-oxidizing microbes dominated by AOA classified within the family Nitrosopumilaceae, and qPCR revealed the abundance of AOA amoA genes over AOB by at least an order of magnitude in most samples. Microcosm studies indicate that the rates of potential ammonia oxidation in these communities satisfy Michaelis-Menten substrate kinetics and this process is more active at temperatures corresponding to summer months than winter. Potential rates in AOA medium were higher than that of AOB medium, indicating a potentially greater contribution of AOA to this process in this environment. In conclusion, this study provides further evidence of the dominance of AOA in these environments compared with AOB and highlights the overall efficiency of this process at turning over excess ammonium that may be present in these environments.

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Soil MicrobiologyAmmoniaArchaeaBacteriaBetaproteobacteriaBiodiversityDNA, ArchaealDNA, BacterialGammaproteobacteriaHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingOxidation-ReductionOxidoreductasesPhylogenyRNA, Ribosomal, 16SSandSouth CarolinaAmmoniaammonia monooxygenaseDNA, ArchaealDNA, BacterialOxidoreductasesRNA, Ribosomal, 16SSandaerobic ammonia oxidationintertidal beachmicrocosmsubstrate kinetics

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PMID32126588
PMCPMC7221436
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