breakthrough in nitrification

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breakthrough in nitrification

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Surprise: one organism responsible for nitrification instead of two
By Radboud University at Nijmegen, The Netherlands Posted Jan 07, 2016 09:00 AM
It could never be found until recently, in a fish tank a few floors below Radboud University’s microbiology department: one single organism able to perform the complete process of nitrification. Microbiologists used to think that two distinct groups of bacteria were responsible for the stepwise oxidation of ammonia to nitrate via nitrite.


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