Archaea predominate among ammonia-oxidizing prokaryotes in soils

By S. Leininger, Tim Urich, M. Schloter, L. Schwark, Ji Qi, G. Nicol, J. Prosser, Stephan C. Schuster, C. Schleper. Nature, 2006

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Subfields: Ecology, Molecular Biology, Pollution

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Citations in the corpus

• Advantages and limitations of quantitative PCR (Q-PCR)-based approaches in microbial ecology. (2009, background): “In a particularly striking example of the value of such functional gene Q-PCR assays, the relative contributions of ammonia-oxidizing archaea and bacteria to the first step of nitrification (ammonia oxidation) have been investigated both in soils (Leininger et al., 2006; He et al., 2007b) and in sea”
• Archaea in dry soil environments (2009, background): “Crenarchaeotal AmoA genes have been estimated to be up to 3,000- fold more abundant than bacterial AmoA genes in soils (Leininger et al. 2006).”
• Nitrososphaera viennensis, an ammonia oxidizing archaeon from soil (2011, positive): “…enrichmentofmarineandthermophilicammoniaoxidizingar-chaea(AOA)(8,11,12)hasradicallychangedthisview,indicating thatanadditional,abundant,andpredominantgroupofmicro-organisms(13,14)isabletoperformthisprocessandmightthusbe signi fi cantly involved in global nitrogen cycling.”
• Nitrification in Marine Systems (2008, positive): “, 2006), and are also prevalent in soils (Leininger et al., 2006).”
• Digging deeper to find unique microbial communities: The strong effect of depth on the structure of bacterial and archaeal communities in soil (2012, background): “Although the ecology of this taxon remains unclear, there is widespread speculation that they are ammonia oxidizers and may be driving autotrophic nitrification in the deeper soil depths (Leininger et al., 2006), but this cannot be confirmed with this study.”
• Relative contributions of archaea and bacteria to aerobic ammonia oxidation in the environment. (2008, background): “…sequences in, for example, marine waters (Wuchter et al., 2006), estuarine sediments (Beman and Francis, 2006), corals (Beman et al., 2007), sponges (Steger et al., 2008), soil (Leininger et al., 2006), wastewater bioreactors (Park et al., 2006) and terrestrial hot springs (Weidler et al., 2007).”
• Carbon isotopic composition of branched tetraether membrane lipids in soils suggest a rapid turnover and a heterotrophic life style of their source organism(s) (2010, positive): “The metabolic strategy of soil crenarchaeota is similar to the marine pelagic Crenarchaeota, i.e., nitrifiers oxidising ammonium to nitrite (e.g. Leininger et al., 2006).”
• Growth, activity and temperature responses of ammonia-oxidizing archaea and bacteria in soil microcosms. (2008, background): “, 2005) and quantification of bacterial and archaeal amoA genes in terrestrial environments (Leininger et al., 2006) indicates that ammonia-oxidizing archaea may be more abundant than ammonia-oxidizing bacteria.”
• Microorganisms and climate change: terrestrial feedbacks and mitigation options (2010, positive): “However, recent studies suggest that some archaea also have an important role in nitrificatio”