Mertcan Esti

ORCID: 0000-0003-2692-516X
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  • Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
  • Protist diversity and phylogeny
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology

Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
2024

Abstract Nitrogen (N 2 ) fixation in oligotrophic surface waters is the main source of new nitrogen to ocean 1 and has a key role fuelling biological carbon pump . Oceanic N been attributed almost exclusively cyanobacteria, even though genes encoding nitrogenase, enzyme that fixes into ammonia, are widespread among marine bacteria archaea 3–5 Little known about these non-cyanobacterial fixers, direct proof they can fix so far lacking. Here we report discovery -fixing symbiont, ‘ Candidatus...

10.1038/s41586-024-07495-w article EN cc-by Nature 2024-05-09
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