Nitrous oxide production by ammonia oxidizers: physiological diversity, niche differentiation and potential mitigation strategies

JI Prosser, L Hink, C Gubry‐Rangin… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Oxidation of ammonia to nitrite by bacteria and archaea is responsible for global emissions
of nitrous oxide directly and indirectly through provision of nitrite and, after further oxidation …

Archaeal and bacterial ammonia-oxidisers in soil: the quest for niche specialisation and differentiation

JI Prosser, GW Nicol - Trends in microbiology, 2012 - cell.com
Autotrophic archaeal and bacterial ammonia-oxidisers (AOA and AOB) drive soil nitrification.
Ammonia limitation, mixotrophy, and pH have been suggested as factors providing niche …

Pathways and key intermediates required for obligate aerobic ammonia-dependent chemolithotrophy in bacteria and Thaumarchaeota

JA Kozlowski, M Stieglmeier, C Schleper… - The ISME …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Chemolithotrophic ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and Thaumarchaeota are central players in
the global nitrogen cycle. Obligate ammonia chemolithotrophy has been characterized for …

Diversity, physiology, and niche differentiation of ammonia-oxidizing archaea

R Hatzenpichler - Applied and environmental microbiology, 2012 - Am Soc Microbiol
Nitrification, the aerobic oxidation of ammonia to nitrate via nitrite, has been suggested to
have been a central part of the global biogeochemical nitrogen cycle since the oxygenation …

Physiology and diversity of ammonia-oxidizing archaea

DA Stahl, JR De La Torre - Annual review of microbiology, 2012 - annualreviews.org
The discovery of ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA), now generally recognized to exert
primary control over ammonia oxidation in terrestrial, marine, and geothermal habitats …

amoA‐based consensus phylogeny of ammonia‐oxidizing archaea and deep sequencing of amoA genes from soils of four different geographic regions

M Pester, T Rattei, S Flechl, A Gröngröft… - Environmental …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Ammonia‐oxidizing archaea (AOA) play an important role in nitrification and many studies
exploit their amoA genes as marker for their diversity and abundance. We present an …

Aerobic nitrous oxide production through N-nitrosating hybrid formation in ammonia-oxidizing archaea

M Stieglmeier, M Mooshammer, B Kitzler… - The ISME …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Soil emissions are largely responsible for the increase of the potent greenhouse gas nitrous
oxide (N2O) in the atmosphere and are generally attributed to the activity of nitrifying and …

Nitrogen cycling during wastewater treatment

DE Holmes, Y Dang, JA Smith - Advances in applied microbiology, 2019 - Elsevier
Many wastewater treatment plants in the world do not remove reactive nitrogen from
wastewater prior to release into the environment. Excess reactive nitrogen not only has a …

Postglacial adaptations enabled colonization and quasi-clonal dispersal of ammonia-oxidizing archaea in modern European large lakes

DK Ngugi, MM Salcher, AS Andrei, R Ghai, F Klotz… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) play a key role in the aquatic nitrogen cycle. Their
genetic diversity is viewed as the outcome of evolutionary processes that shaped ancestral …

The genome of the ammonia‐oxidizing Candidatus Nitrososphaera gargensis: insights into metabolic versatility and environmental adaptations

A Spang, A Poehlein, P Offre… - Environmental …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The cohort of the ammonia‐oxidizing archaea (AOA) of the phylum Thaumarchaeota is a
diverse, widespread and functionally important group of microorganisms in many …