Revising the nitrogen cycle in the Peruvian oxygen minimum zone
Revising the nitrogen cycle in the Peruvian oxygen minimum zone
P. Lam,G. Lavik,7 Authors,M. Kuypers
2009 · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0812444106
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 757 Citations
TLDR
It is shown that in the ETSP-OMZ, anammox obtains 67% or more of NO2− from nitrate reduction, and 33% or less from aerobic ammonia oxidation, based on stable-isotope pairing experiments corroborated by functional gene expression analyses.