Apparent oxygen half saturation constant for nitrifiers: genus specific, inherent physiological property, or artefact of colony morphology?
Yingyu Law, Artur S. Matysik, Xueming Chen, Sara Swa Thi, Thi Quynh Ngoc Nguyen, Guang Lei Qiu, Gayathri K. Natarajan, Rohan B. H. Williams, Bing‐Jie Ni, Thomas William Seviour, Stefan Wuertz
The paper investigates the apparent oxygen half saturation constant (Ks(app)) for Nitrospira sublineage I OTU in wastewater treatment plants, finding it lower than AOB, suggesting NOB can thrive under low oxygen conditions.
bioRxiv · Mar 27, 2018 · PreprintSystems Biology