Nature Communications (Apr 2018)

Unifying the global phylogeny and environmental distribution of ammonia-oxidising archaea based on amoA genes

  • Ricardo J. Eloy Alves,
  • Bui Quang Minh,
  • Tim Urich,
  • Arndt von Haeseler,
  • Christa Schleper

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03861-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Ammonia-oxidising archaea (AOA) were only discovered a little over a decade ago and remain poorly characterized despite their ubiquity and importance for nitrogen cycling. Here, the authors define a taxonomy of AOA based on a resolved amoA phylogeny and describe emergent global patterns in AOA diversity.