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Denitrification In Great Basin Hot Springs, Austin Mcdonald, Brian P. Hedlund
Denitrification In Great Basin Hot Springs, Austin Mcdonald, Brian P. Hedlund
Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP)
Hydrogen has been proposed to fuel primary production in the Aquificae dominated hot springs of Yellowstone National Park (Spear, et al. 2005), a finding the authors generalized to all hot springs. However, clone libraries derived from Great Basin springs contain few 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene sequences from Aquificae and many from unknown microorganisms. In the same springs, alternative electron donors rival the reducing power of hydrogen. This project will try to cultivate the uncharacterized microbes of two Great Basin springs and determine which electron donors they can use.
Nitrogen is key to life. In its reduced form, ammonia, it …