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Population Dynamics And Community Composition Of Ammonia Oxidizers In Salt Marshes After The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Anne E. Bernhard, Roberta Sheffer, Anne E. Giblin, John M. Marton, Brian J. Roberts
Population Dynamics And Community Composition Of Ammonia Oxidizers In Salt Marshes After The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Anne E. Bernhard, Roberta Sheffer, Anne E. Giblin, John M. Marton, Brian J. Roberts
Biology Faculty Publications
The recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico had significant effects on microbial communities in the Gulf, but impacts on nitrifying communities in adjacent salt marshes have not been investigated. We studied persistent effects of oil on ammonia-oxidizing archaeal (AOA) and bacterial (AOB) communities and their relationship to nitrification rates and soil properties in Louisiana marshes impacted by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Soils were collected at oiled and unoiled sites from Louisiana coastal marshes in July 2012, 2 years after the spill, and analyzed for community differences based on ammonia monooxygenase genes (amoA). Terminal Restriction Fragment …
Identification, Enumeration And Diversity Of Nitrifying Planktonic Archaea And Bacteria In Trophic End Members Of The Laurentian Great Lakes, Maitreyee Mukherjee, Anirban Ray, Anton F. Post, Robert Michael Mckay, George S. Bullerjahn
Identification, Enumeration And Diversity Of Nitrifying Planktonic Archaea And Bacteria In Trophic End Members Of The Laurentian Great Lakes, Maitreyee Mukherjee, Anirban Ray, Anton F. Post, Robert Michael Mckay, George S. Bullerjahn
Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research Publications
Oligotrophic Lake Superior and mesotrophic Lake Erie are trophic end members of the hydrologically connected Laurentian Great Lakes system, and as such exhibit different profiles of dissolved nitrogen species. Nitrification in Lake Superior has led to increasing nitrate concentrations over the past century, as opposed to Erie, where nitrate inventories have declined due to denitrification. In this study, we examined the abundance and diversity of nitrifying microbes involved in the oxidation of ammonia to nitrite, and nitrite to nitrate. By in situ hybridization methods, we enumerated the major planktonic ammonia oxidizing bacteria (AOB) and archaea (AOA) during a July 2011 …