Comammox (COMplete AMMonia OXidation) is the name attributed to an organism that can convert ammonia into nitrite and then into nitrate through the process...
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Nitrifying bacteria (section Comammox bacteria)
Winogradsky. Ammonia can be also oxidized completely to nitrate by one comammox bacterium. Ammonia oxidation in autotrophic nitrification is a complex...
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occur through separate organisms or entirely within one organism, as in comammox bacteria. The transformation of ammonia to nitrite is usually the rate...
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to perform complete ammonia oxidation to nitrate thus being the first comammox bacterium to be discovered. N. inopinata was cultivated in enrichment culture...
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ammonium-oxidizing archaea, ANAMMOX bacteria, and Complete Ammonium-Oxidizing (COMAMMOX) bacteria of the genus Nitrospira. Several environmental hazards, such...
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nitrification, the conversion of ammonia to nitrate in a single step known as comammox, has an energy yield (∆G°′) of −349 kJ mol−1 NH3, while the energy yields...
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of Nitrospira with the capabilities to perform complete nitrification (comammox bacteria) has also been discovered and cultivated. For the following description...
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Sekiguchi et al. 2008 Species T. yellowstonii Henry et al. 1994 (type sp.) Comammox Nitrate Nitrite Nitrogen cycle Nitrobacter Nitrobacteraceae Nitrosomonas...
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showed the microbial genus Nitrospira is capable of complete nitrification (Comammox). Anammox stands for anaerobic ammonia oxidation and the organisms responsible...
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