Abstract
Bacteria able to perform dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium were isolated from low-oxygen masses in the Baltic Sea. In liquid media enriched with 15NO3− and incubated anaerobically, the NH4+-producing isolates transformed 25 to 72% of the 15NO3− to 15NH4+.
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