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. 2007 Sep;73(18):5959-61.
doi: 10.1128/AEM.00981-07. Epub 2007 Aug 3.

Nitrogen fixation by Vibrio parahaemolyticus and its implications for a new ecological niche

J D Criminger  1 , T H Hazen, P A Sobecky, C R Lovell
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Nitrogen fixation by Vibrio parahaemolyticus and its implications for a new ecological niche

J D Criminger et al. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2007 Sep.

Abstract

A Vibrio parahaemolyticus strain isolated from the rhizosphere of the ecosystem dominant estuarine grass, Spartina alterniflora, was characterized and shown to carry nifH, the gene encoding the nitrogenase iron protein, and to fix N(2). Nitrogen fixation may contribute substantially to the adaptability, niche breadth, and ecological significance of V. parahaemolyticus.

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FIG. 1.
FIG. 1.
Neighbor-joining phylogeny of concatenated sequences of 16S rRNA, recA, and rpoA genes from species of Vibrio. A neighbor-joining tree was constructed using the Jukes-Cantor correction. Bootstrap values represent 1,000 replications, and values of <50% are not shown. Diazotrophic strains are marked with asterisks.
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FIG. 2.
Neighbor-joining phylogeny of Vibrio and reference nifH sequences. A neighbor-joining tree was constructed using the Kimura two-parameter correction. Bootstrap values represent 1,000 replications, and values of <50% are not shown.
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