PRESCOTT'S MICROBIOLOGY
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Author: WILLEY
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Chapter 24, Problem 4AL
Benthic foraminifera inhabit marine sediments. It was discovered that the benthic foram Globobulimina pseudospinescens stores intracellular nitrate, which it reduces to nitrogen gas. This is the first and only case of eukaryotic denitrification. How would you go about designing a comparative analysis of eukaryotic and bacterial denitrification? What physical factors and physiological and enzymatic features would you characterize?
Read the original paper: Risgaard-Peterson, N., et al. 2006. Evidence for complete denitrification in a benthic foraminifera. Nature. 443:93.
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