Title |
Niche differentiation in nitrogen metabolism among methanotrophs within an operational taxonomic unit
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Published in |
BMC Microbiology, April 2014
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2180-14-83 |
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Authors |
Sven Hoefman, David van der Ha, Nico Boon, Peter Vandamme, Paul De Vos, Kim Heylen |
Abstract |
The currently accepted thesis on nitrogenous fertilizer additions on methane oxidation activity assumes niche partitioning among methanotrophic species, with activity responses to changes in nitrogen content being dependent on the in situ methanotrophic community structure Unfortunately, widely applied tools for microbial community assessment only have a limited phylogenetic resolution mostly restricted to genus level diversity, and not to species level as often mistakenly assumed. As a consequence, intragenus or intraspecies metabolic versatility in nitrogen metabolism was never evaluated nor considered among methanotrophic bacteria as a source of differential responses of methane oxidation to nitrogen amendments. |
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Germany | 1 | 20% |
Netherlands | 1 | 20% |
Unknown | 1 | 20% |
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Scientists | 4 | 80% |
Members of the public | 1 | 20% |
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Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
Norway | 1 | <1% |
Sweden | 1 | <1% |
Japan | 1 | <1% |
United States | 1 | <1% |
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Student > Master | 16 | 15% |
Researcher | 14 | 13% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 9 | 8% |
Student > Bachelor | 7 | 6% |
Other | 14 | 13% |
Unknown | 25 | 23% |
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Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 26 | 24% |
Environmental Science | 17 | 16% |
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 10 | 9% |
Engineering | 8 | 7% |
Immunology and Microbiology | 5 | 5% |
Other | 11 | 10% |
Unknown | 32 | 29% |