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Curious on #niche differentiation of marine #AOA #Nitrosopumilus and #Nitrosopelagicus?
#Urea is (part of) the answer!

Study in
@natcomms.nature.com

https://www.mpi-bremen.de/en/Urea-The-Hidden-Fuel-for-Ocean-Microbes.html

Jo­er­dis Stuehren­berg, Kath­ar­ina Kitzinger, et al (2025): Urea use drives niche sep­ar­a­tion between dom­in­ant mar­ine am­mo­nia ox­id­iz­ing ar­chaea. Nature Comu­nic­a­tions 16, 10946
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-67048-1