Different Microorganisms Have a Taste for Different Flavors of Ammonia (IMAGE)
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Researchers determined the nitrogen source preference of different ammonia-oxidizing microorganisms by growing cells in an ammonia-urea mixture with nitrogen-15 labeled urea or ammonia and imaging labeled cells with NanoSIMS.
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Image courtesy of Wei Qin, Britt Abrahamson, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
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Image courtesy of Wei Qin, Britt Abrahamson, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
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