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A microarray for assessing transcription from pelagic marine microbial taxa

scientific article

A shift in the archaeal nitrifier community in response to natural and anthropogenic disturbances in the northern Gulf of Mexico

scientific article

Ammonia-oxidizing bacterial community composition in estuarine and oceanic environments assessed using a functional gene microarray

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Amperometric sensor for nanomolar nitrous oxide analysis

scientific article published on 17 December 2019

Anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) in Chesapeake Bay sediments

scientific article published on 07 July 2007

Biological nitrogen fixation in the oxygen-minimum region of the eastern tropical North Pacific ocean

scientific article published on 25 July 2017

Comment on"A Critical Review on Nitrous Oxide Production by Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea" by Lan Wu, Xueming Chen, Wei Wei, Yiwen Liu, Dongbo Wang, and Bing-Jie Ni

scientific article published on 16 December 2020

Community Composition of Nitrous Oxide Consuming Bacteria in the Oxygen Minimum Zone of the Eastern Tropical South Pacific

scientific article

Community Composition of Nitrous Oxide-Related Genes in Salt Marsh Sediments Exposed to Nitrogen Enrichment.

scientific article published on 12 February 2018

Community composition of ammonia-oxidizing archaea from surface and anoxic depths of oceanic oxygen minimum zones

scientific article published on January 1, 2013

Community level analysis: genetic and biogeochemical approaches to investigate community composition and function in aerobic ammonia oxidation.

scientific article

Comparison of the isotopic composition of fish otolith-bound organic N with host tissue

scientific article published in February 2020

Complete genome sequence of Nitrobacter hamburgensis X14 and comparative genomic analysis of species within the genus Nitrobacter.

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Complete genome sequence of the marine, chemolithoautotrophic, ammonia-oxidizing bacterium Nitrosococcus oceani ATCC 19707.

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Connecting the dots: linking nitrogen cycle gene expression to nitrogen fluxes in marine sediment mesocosms

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Controls on nitrite oxidation in the upper Southern Ocean: insights from winter kinetics experiments in the Indian sector

Controls on nitrogen loss processes in Chesapeake Bay sediments

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Controls on the nitrogen isotopic composition of fish otolith organic matter: Lessons from a controlled diet switch experiment

Correction to "Global Nitrogen Cycle: Critical Enzymes, Organisms, and Processes for Nitrogen Budgets and Dynamics"

scientific article published on 05 August 2020

Development and testing of a DNA macroarray to assess nitrogenase (nifH) gene diversity

scientific article published in March 2004

Diversity and distribution of nitrogen fixation genes in the oxygen minimum zones of the world oceans

scientific article published in 2020

Diversity of assimilatory nitrate reductase genes from plankton and epiphytes associated with a seagrass bed.

scientific article

Diversity, distribution, and expression of diazotroph nifH genes in oxygen-deficient waters of the Arabian Sea.

scientific article published on 9 July 2012

Elucidation of Functional Groups on Gram-Positive and Gram-Negative Bacterial Surfaces Using Infrared Spectroscopy

article by Wei Jiang et al published December 2004 in Langmuir

Environmental factors determining ammonia-oxidizing organism distribution and diversity in marine environments

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Evaluation of Genomic Sequence-Based Growth Rate Methods for Synchronized Synechococcus Cultures

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Fingerprinting diazotroph communities in the Chesapeake Bay by using a DNA macroarray

scientific article published in March 2004

Genetic diversity of benzoyl coenzyme A reductase genes detected in denitrifying isolates and estuarine sediment communities

scientific article

Global Nitrogen Cycle: Critical Enzymes, Organisms, and Processes for Nitrogen Budgets and Dynamics

scientific article published on 12 June 2020

Global Nitrous Oxide Production Determined by Oxygen Sensitivity of Nitrification and Denitrification

scientific article published in 2018

How many species of prokaryotes are there?

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Intron features of key functional genes mediating nitrogen metabolism in marine phytoplankton.

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Linking phytoplankton community composition to seasonal changes in f-ratio

scientific article published on May 5, 2011

Long‐term fertilization alters the relative importance of nitrate reduction pathways in salt marsh sediments

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MOLECULAR DIVERSITY OF MARINE PHYTOPLANKTON COMMUNITIES BASED ON KEY FUNCTIONAL GENES(1).

scientific article

Marine Oxygen-Deficient Zones Harbor Depauperate Denitrifying Communities Compared to Novel Genetic Diversity in Coastal Sediments

scientific article published on 28 February 2015

Measurements of DOC and DON in the Southern California Bight using oxidation by high temperature combustion

Microbial community composition in sediments resists perturbation by nutrient enrichment

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Molecular methods to detect and monitor dissimilatory arsenate-respiring bacteria (DARB) in sediments.

scientific article

Multiple metabolisms constrain the anaerobic nitrite budget in the Eastern Tropical South Pacific

scientific article published in 2017

Nitric oxide isotopic analyzer based on a compact dual-modulation Faraday rotation spectrometer

scientific article

Nitrite Oxidation Across the Full Oxygen Spectrum in the Ocean

scientific article published in 2023

Nitrite reductase genes in halobenzoate degrading denitrifying bacteria

scientific article published in April 2003

Nitrogen and oxygen availabilities control water column nitrous oxide production during seasonal anoxia in the Chesapeake Bay

scientific article published in 2018

Nitrogen cycling in the ocean: new perspectives on processes and paradigms

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Nitrogen cycling. Rapid nitrous oxide cycling in the suboxic ocean

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Nitrogen isotopic analysis of carbonate-bound organic matter in modern and fossil fish otoliths

scholarly article

Nitrogen loss processes in response to upwelling in a Peruvian coastal setting dominated by denitrification – a mesocosm approach

scientific article published in 2021

Nitrogen uptake and nitrification in the subarctic North Atlantic Ocean

scientific article published on 16 February 2018

Nitrosococcus watsonii sp. nov., a new species of marine obligate ammonia-oxidizing bacteria that is not omnipresent in the world's oceans: calls to validate the names 'Nitrosococcus halophilus' and 'Nitrosomonas mobilis'.

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Nitrous Oxide Consumption in Oxygenated and Anoxic Estuarine Waters

scientific article published in 2022

Oceans. How nitrogen is lost

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Oligonucleotide microarray for the study of functional gene diversity in the nitrogen cycle in the environment.

scientific article

Oligonucleotide microarrays for the study of coastal microbial communities

scientific article published in January 2007

Organic Matter Loading Modifies the Microbial Community Responsible for Nitrogen Loss in Estuarine Sediments

scientific article published on 31 October 2015

Organic matter stoichiometry, flux, and oxygen control nitrogen loss in the ocean

scientific article published on 10 April 2014

Oxygen distribution and aerobic respiration in the north and south eastern tropical Pacific oxygen minimum zones

scholarly article by Laura Tiano published in December 2014

Phylogenetic analysis of nitric oxide reductase gene homologues from aerobic ammonia-oxidizing bacteria

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Phytoplankton‐Nitrifier Interactions Control the Geographic Distribution of Nitrite in the Upper Ocean

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Probabilistic Modeling of Microbial Metabolic Networks for Integrating Partial Quantitative Knowledge Within the Nitrogen Cycle

scientific article published on 01 January 2018

Reduced isotope fractionation by denitrification under conditions relevant to the ocean

scientific article published in September 2012

Seasonal and annual reoccurrence in betaproteobacterial ammonia-oxidizing bacterial population structure

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Sediment denitrifier community composition and nirS gene expression investigated with functional gene microarrays

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Significance of anaerobic ammonium oxidation in the ocean

scientific article published on 01 September 2003

Spatial-temporal variability in diazotroph assemblages in Chesapeake Bay using an oligonucleotide nifH microarray.

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The Discovery of Twenty-Eight New Encapsulin Sequences, Including Three in Anammox Bacteria

scientific article published on 27 December 2019

The Seasonal Cycle of Nitrogen Uptake and Nitrification in the Atlantic Sector of the Southern Ocean

scientific article published in 2020

The counterintuitive effect of summer-to-fall mixed layer deepening on eukaryotic new production in the Sargasso Sea

scientific article published in 2014

The marine nitrogen cycle: recent discoveries, uncertainties and the potential relevance of climate change

scientific article (publication date: 5 July 2013)

The microbial nitrogen cycle

scientific article

Transitions in nirS-type denitrifier diversity, community composition, and biogeochemical activity along the Chesapeake Bay estuary.

scientific article published on 30 August 2013

Tropical Dominance of N 2 Fixation in the North Atlantic Ocean

scientific article published in October 2017

Uncultured Nitrospina-like species are major nitrite oxidizing bacteria in oxygen minimum zones

scientific article published on 22 May 2019

Vertical decoupling of nitrate assimilation and nitrification in the Sargasso Sea

scientific article published in September 2015

Worldwide distribution of Nitrosococcus oceani, a marine ammonia-oxidizing gamma-proteobacterium, detected by PCR and sequencing of 16S rRNA and amoA genes

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nirS-type denitrifying bacterial assemblages respond to environmental conditions of a shallow estuary

scientific article published on 15 September 2017