Archaeal nitrification in the ocean
Archaeal nitrification in the ocean
C. Wuchter,B. Abbas,9 Authors,J. S. Sinninghe Damsté
2006 · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0600756103
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 1,141 Citations
TLDR
Analysis of Atlantic waters of the upper 1,000 m, where most of the ammonium regeneration and oxidation takes place, showed that crenarchaeotal amoA copy numbers are also 1–3 orders of magnitude higher than those of bacterial amoB, suggesting a major role for Archaea in oceanic nitrification.