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ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2026

Sulfur-cycling diazotrophs dominate nitrogen fixation in seagrass sediments.

Lixia Deng, Zhicheng Ju, Jiawei Chen, Yuxuan Lin, Weiguo Zhou, Sangwook Scott Lee, Charmaine C M Yung, Hongbin Liu

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Article in Applied and environmental microbiology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Lixia DengDepartment of Ocean Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China.ORCID 0000-0003-0441-2507
Zhicheng JuDepartment of Ocean Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China.ORCID 0000-0002-2562-5774
Jiawei ChenDepartment of Ocean Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China.ORCID 0000-0002-4874-3474
Yuxuan LinDepartment of Ocean Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China.
Weiguo ZhouDaya Bay Marine Biology Research Station, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China.
Sangwook Scott LeeDepartment of Ocean Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China.ORCID 0000-0003-0458-1247
Charmaine C M YungDepartment of Ocean Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China.
Hongbin LiuDepartment of Ocean Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China.ORCID 0000-0002-3184-2898

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Hong Kong Research Grants Council 16101622, 16101824, AoE/P-601/23-NStrategic Topics Grant from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China STG2/P-604/25-R
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Abstract

Diazotrophs, the microbes capable of fixing dinitrogen, are essential for providing bioavailable nitrogen that supports marine primary production. Traditionally, nitrogen fixation in seagrass sediments has been linked primarily to heterotrophic sulfate reduction, leaving the roles of other metabolic processes, like sulfur oxidation, largely unexplored. Here, we employed metagenomic and metatranscriptomic approaches to explore the distribution, metabolic capabilities, and activity of diazotrophs in sediments dominated by the seagrass

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BacteriaGeologic SedimentsHydrocharitaceaeNitrogen FixationSulfurDeltaproteobacteriaGammaproteobacteriaHong KongMetagenomeMetagenomicsSulfurdiazotrophsmetagenomicsmetatranscriptomicsnitrogen fixationseagrass sedimentsulfur-cycling bacteria

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PMCPMC13488301

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