Prescott's Microbiology
10th Edition
ISBN: 9781259281594
Author: Joanne Willey, Linda Sherwood Adjunt Professor Lecturer, Christopher J. Woolverton Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 25, Problem 6CHI
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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