Nitrosomonas
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Nitrosomonas is a genus of Gram-negative bacteria, belonging to the Betaproteobacteria. It is one of the five genera of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria[8] and, as an obligate chemolithoautotroph,[9] uses ammonia () as an energy source and carbon dioxide (
) as a carbon source in presence of oxygen. Nitrosomonas are important in the global biogeochemical nitrogen cycle,[10] since they increase the bioavailability of nitrogen to plants and in the denitrification, which is important for the release of nitrous oxide, a powerful greenhouse gas.[11] This microbe is photophobic, and usually generate a biofilm matrix, or form clumps with other microbes, to avoid light.[12] Nitrosomonas can be divided into six lineages: the first one includes the species Nitrosomonas europea, Nitrosomonas eutropha, Nitrosomonas halophila, and Nitrosomonas mobilis. The second lineage presents the species Nitrosomonas communis, N. sp. I and N. sp. II, meanwhile the third lineage includes only Nitrosomonas nitrosa. The fourth lineage includes the species Nitrosomonas ureae and Nitrosomonas oligotropha and the fifth and sixth lineages include the species Nitrosomonas marina, N. sp. III, Nitrosomonas estuarii and Nitrosomonas cryotolerans.[13]
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Nitrosomonas | |
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N. eutropha | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Bacteria |
Phylum: | Pseudomonadota |
Class: | Betaproteobacteria |
Order: | Spirillales |
Family: | Nitrosomonadaceae |
Genus: | Nitrosomonas Winogradsky, 1892[1] |
Type species | |
Nitrosomonas europaea | |
Species[2] | |
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