Sentences with phrase «anammox bacteria»

The well - known anammox bacteria convert ammonia and nitrite into dinitrogen gas, without using oxygen.

But anammox bacteria don't tackle their job in isolation.

In return, the heterotrophs convert nitrogen into a form that anammox bacteria require for growth.

These latecomers to the research scene, called anammox bacteria, are the subject of a new study led by Daniel Noguera and Katherine McMahon, professors of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

An additional advantage of anammox bacteria, compared to conventional wastewater treatment, is that they convert a larger amount of ammonium to nitrogen gas.

These partners are called heterotrophs, since they rely on the anammox bacteria — which are primary producers (or autotrophs), like plants capable of photosynthesis — to turn atmospheric carbon dioxide into organic carbon.

The heterotrophs receive the organic carbon they need to grow from the anammox bacteria in the form of several specific molecules, the researchers discovered in the study.

This provides important clues on what the anammox bacteria and their partners might actually be doing, and how they interact.»

Don't miss great articles from other sections, like «Water microbiome» where I would recommend an article deciphering the evolution and metabolism of an anammox bacterium by M. Strous and an article about globally overlooked nanoplanktonic diatoms by K. Leblanc.

Not exact matches

«We knew very little about the role of the bacteria that coexist in anammox granules,» Noguera says.