They thought ammonia-oxidizing microbes were doing the work. But the real carbon fixers were hiding in plain sight.

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ABSTRACT: Understanding the microbial diversity of freshwater bodies provides insight into their trophic status, habitat type, and degree of contamination. This study represents the first attempt to ...

Life on Earth blooms with wild ingenuity. From phosphorescent fungi feeding in the undergrowth to chameleons flicking tongues at unsuspecting prey, every organism carves out its own strategy to ...

Engineering Research Center of Bioconversion and Biopurification of the Ministry of Education, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310014, PR China Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Synthesis of ...

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Denitrification is the most important process for nitrogen removal in eutrophic lakes and was mostly investigated in lake sediment. Denitrification could also be mediated by cyanobacterial aggregates, ...

1 Department of Developmental Biology and Neurosciences, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Aoba, Japan. 2 Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, ...

Viruses exist in all ecosystems in vast numbers and infect many organisms. Some of them are harmful but others can protect the organisms they infect. For example, a group of viruses called virophages ...