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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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Shishi He, Zhirong Zhao, Zhichao Tian, Chi Xu, Yuan Liu, Da He, Yinghui Zhang, Maosheng Zheng
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JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
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Haiyang Liu, Hangwei Hu, Xing Huang, Tida Ge, Yongfu Li, Zhenke Zhu, Xingmei Liu, Wenfeng Tan, Zhongjun Jia, Hongjie Di, Jianming Xu, Yong Li
Summary: Chemoautotrophic canonical ammonia-oxidizers play a significant role in autotrophic nitrification during the mineralization of organic substances with low C/N ratios in paddy soils, as shown by N-15 tracing and DNA-SIP techniques.
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APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY
(2021)
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Yongxin Lin, Hang-Wei Hu, Guiping Ye, Jianbo Fan, Weixin Ding, Zi-Yang He, Yong Zheng, Ji-Zheng He
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