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dc.contributor.authorZhao, Rui
dc.contributor.authorBabbin, Andrew R
dc.contributor.authorRoerdink, Desiree L
dc.contributor.authorThorseth, Ingunn H
dc.contributor.authorJørgensen, Steffen L
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-09T17:51:06Z
dc.date.available2024-02-09T17:51:06Z
dc.date.issued2023-03-29
dc.identifier.issn2730-6151
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/153484
dc.description.abstractBy consuming ammonium and nitrite, anammox bacteria form an important functional guild in nitrogen cycling in many environments, including marine sediments. However, their distribution and impact on the important substrate nitrite has not been well characterized. Here we combined biogeochemical, microbiological, and genomic approaches to study anammox bacteria and other nitrogen cycling groups in two sediment cores retrieved from the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge (AMOR). We observed nitrite accumulation in these cores, a phenomenon also recorded at 28 other marine sediment sites and in analogous aquatic environments. The nitrite maximum coincides with reduced abundance of anammox bacteria. Anammox bacterial abundances were at least one order of magnitude higher than those of nitrite reducers and the anammox abundance maxima were detected in the layers above and below the nitrite maximum. Nitrite accumulation in the two AMOR cores co-occurs with a niche partitioning between two anammox bacterial families (Candidatus Bathyanammoxibiaceae and Candidatus Scalinduaceae), likely dependent on ammonium availability. Through reconstructing and comparing the dominant anammox genomes (Ca. Bathyanammoxibius amoris and Ca. Scalindua sediminis), we revealed that Ca. B. amoris has fewer high-affinity ammonium transporters than Ca. S. sediminis and lacks the capacity to access alternative substrates and/or energy sources such as urea and cyanate. These features may restrict Ca. Bathyanammoxibiaceae to conditions of higher ammonium concentrations. These findings improve our understanding about nitrogen cycling in marine sediments by revealing coincident nitrite accumulation and niche partitioning of anammox bacteria.en_US
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherOxford University Press (OUP)en_US
dc.relation.isversionof10.1038/s43705-023-00230-yen_US
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attributionen_US
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dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en_US
dc.subjectGeneral Medicineen_US
dc.titleNitrite accumulation and anammox bacterial niche partitioning in Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge sedimentsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.citationRui Zhao, Andrew R Babbin, Desiree L Roerdink, Ingunn H Thorseth, Steffen L Jørgensen, Nitrite accumulation and anammox bacterial niche partitioning in Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge sediments, ISME Communications, Volume 3, Issue 1, December 2023, 26.en_US
dc.contributor.departmentMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
dc.eprint.versionFinal published versionen_US
dc.type.urihttp://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticleen_US
eprint.statushttp://purl.org/eprint/status/PeerRevieweden_US
dspace.date.submission2024-02-09T17:47:54Z
mit.journal.volume3en_US
mit.journal.issue1en_US
mit.licensePUBLISHER_CC
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