Nitrogen losses in anoxic marine sediments driven by Thioploca–anammox bacterial consortia

M. G. Prokopenko (), M. B. Hirst, L. De Brabandere, D. J. P. Lawrence, W. M. Berelson, J. Granger, B. X. Chang, S. Dawson, E. J. Crane, L. Chong, B. Thamdrup, A. Townsend-Small and D. M. Sigman
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M. G. Prokopenko: Pomona College
M. B. Hirst: University of California, Davis, 1 Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA
L. De Brabandere: Nordic Center for Earth Evolution, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M, Denmark
D. J. P. Lawrence: Pomona College
W. M. Berelson: University of Southern California, 3651 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA
J. Granger: University of Connecticut
B. X. Chang: Guyot Hall, Princeton University
S. Dawson: University of California, Davis, 1 Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA
E. J. Crane: Pomona College
L. Chong: University of Southern California, 3651 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA
B. Thamdrup: Nordic Center for Earth Evolution, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M, Denmark
A. Townsend-Small: University of Cincinnati, 605 Geology-Physics Building, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221, USA
D. M. Sigman: Guyot Hall, Princeton University

Nature, 2013, vol. 500, issue 7461, 194-198

Abstract: A novel symbiotic consortium is described between two chemolithotrophic bacteria — anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing (anammox) bacteria and the nitrate-sequestering sulphur-oxidizing Thioploca species — in anoxic sediments of the Soledad basin at the Mexican Pacific margin.

Date: 2013
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