Affiliation:
1. Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Riverside, California 92507
Abstract
A chemolithotrophic ammonium-oxidizing bacterium that was able to reduce
15
NO
2
−
to
15
N
2
(
m/z
30) while oxidizing ammonium under conditions of oxygen stress was isolated from stream sediments. Energy was derived from ammonium oxidation, as evidence by growth, with CO
2
serving as the sole C source. The organism was a gram-negative, motile, short rod that failed to grow either aerobically or anaerobically in heterotroph media. The organism was identified as a
Nitrosomonas
sp.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Ecology,Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology,Food Science,Biotechnology
Cited by
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