Nitrous oxide reductase genes (nosZ) of denitrifying microbial populations in soil and the earthworm gut are phylogenetically similar.
Horn MA, Drake HL, Schramm A.
Horn MA, et al. Among authors: schramm a.
Appl Environ Microbiol. 2006 Feb;72(2):1019-26. doi: 10.1128/AEM.72.2.1019-1026.2006.
Appl Environ Microbiol. 2006.
PMID: 16461644
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It has been hypothesized that the in situ conditions of the earthworm gut activates ingested soil denitrifiers during gut passage and leads to these in vivo emissions (M. A. Horn, A. Schramm, and H. L. Drake, Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 69:1662-1669, 2003). ... …
It has been hypothesized that the in situ conditions of the earthworm gut activates ingested soil denitrifiers during gut passage and leads …