The marine nitrogen cycle: new developments and global change

DA Hutchins, DG Capone - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2022 - nature.com
The ocean is home to a diverse and metabolically versatile microbial community that
performs the complex biochemical transformations that drive the nitrogen cycle, including …

Nitrite oxidation in wastewater treatment: microbial adaptation and suppression challenges

Z Su, T Liu, J Guo, M Zheng - Environmental Science & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Microbial nitrite oxidation is the primary pathway that generates nitrate in wastewater
treatment systems and can be performed by a variety of microbes: namely, nitrite-oxidizing …

Nitrification and beyond: metabolic versatility of ammonia oxidising archaea

CL Wright, LE Lehtovirta-Morley - The ISME Journal, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Ammonia oxidising archaea are among the most abundant living organisms on Earth and
key microbial players in the global nitrogen cycle. They carry out oxidation of ammonia to …

Ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and archaea exhibit differential nitrogen source preferences

W Qin, SP Wei, Y Zheng, E Choi, X Li, J Johnston… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Ammonia-oxidizing microorganisms (AOM) contribute to one of the largest nitrogen fluxes in
the global nitrogen budget. Four distinct lineages of AOM: ammonia-oxidizing archaea …

Highly enhanced biodegradation of pharmaceutical and personal care products in a novel tidal flow constructed wetland with baffle and plants

YX Cheng, J Chen, D Wu, YS Liu, YQ Yang, LX He… - Water Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Research on decentralized wastewaters deserves special focus due to the potential
abundance of emerging organic pollutants including pharmaceutical and personal care …

Prokaryotic life in the deep ocean's water column

GJ Herndl, B Bayer, F Baltar… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The oceanic waters below a depth of 200 m represent, in terms of volume, the largest habitat
of the biosphere, harboring approximately 70% of the prokaryotic biomass in the oceanic …

Disentangling the effects of nitrogen availability and soil acidification on microbial taxa and soil carbon dynamics in natural grasslands

W Xing, X Lu, J Ying, Z Lan, D Chen, Y Bai - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
Although nitrogen (N) enrichment enhances both soil N availability and soil acidification, it is
difficult to isolate their effects on microbial taxa that drive the soil carbon (C) dynamics under …

Nitrogen and phosphorous acquisition strategies drive coexistence patterns among archaeal lineages in soil

J Zhao, L Huang, S Chakrabarti, J Cooper… - The ISME …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Soil represents the largest reservoir of Archaea on Earth. Present-day archaeal diversity in
soils globally is dominated by members of the class Nitrososphaeria. The evolutionary …

Hot spring distribution and survival mechanisms of thermophilic comammox Nitrospira

Y Zhang, T Liu, MM Li, ZS Hua, P Evans, Y Qu… - The ISME …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The recent discovery of Nitrospira species capable of complete ammonia oxidation
(comammox) in non-marine natural and engineered ecosystems under mesothermal …

Phylogenetic divergence and adaptation of Nitrososphaeria across lake depths and freshwater ecosystems

M Ren, J Wang - The ISME Journal, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Thaumarchaeota (now the class Nitrososphaeria in the phylum Thermoproteota in GTDB
taxonomy) are abundant across marine and soil habitats; however, their genomic diversity …