A moderately thermophilic ammonia-oxidizing crenarchaeote from a hot spring
A moderately thermophilic ammonia-oxidizing crenarchaeote from a hot spring
R. Hatzenpichler,E. Lebedeva,4 Authors,M. Wagner
2008 · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0708857105
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 699 Citations
TLDR
The enriched AOA, which is provisionally classified as “Candidatus Nitrososphaera gargensis,” is the first described thermophilic ammonia oxidizer and the first member of the crenarchaeotal group I.1b for which ammonium oxidation has been verified on a cellular level.