New insight to niche partitioning and ecological function of ammonia oxidizing archaea in subtropical estuarine ecosystem

Lu, Yanhong; Cheung, Shunyan; Chen, Ling; Kao, Shuh-Ji; Xia, Xiaomin; Gan, Jianping; Dai, Minhan; Liu, Hongbin

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-6017-2020

Articles | Volume 17, issue 23

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-6017-2020

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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-6017-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 17, issue 23

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03 Dec 2020

Research article |

| 03 Dec 2020

New insight to niche partitioning and ecological function of ammonia oxidizing archaea in subtropical estuarine ecosystem

Yanhong Lu, Shunyan Cheung, Ling Chen, Shuh-Ji Kao, Xiaomin Xia, Jianping Gan, Minhan Dai, and Hongbin Liu

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RC1: 'Review of Lu et al, New Insight to Niche Partitioning and Ecological Function of Ammonia Oxidizing Archaea in Subtropical Estuarine Ecosystem', Anonymous Referee #1, 20 Jul 2020
- AC1: 'Response to reviewer 1', Yanhong LU, 13 Aug 2020
RC2: 'reviewer comments', Anonymous Referee #2, 30 Jul 2020
- AC2: 'Response to reviewer 2', Yanhong LU, 14 Aug 2020

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ED: Reconsider after major revisions (18 Aug 2020) by Carolin Löscher

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ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (06 Oct 2020) by Carolin Löscher

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (23 Oct 2020)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (28 Oct 2020) by Carolin Löscher

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Through a comprehensive investigation, we observed differential niche partitioning among diverse ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) sublineages in a typical subtropical estuary. Distinct AOA communities observed at DNA and RNA levels suggested that a strong divergence in ammonia-oxidizing activity among different AOA groups occurs. Our result highlights the importance of identifying major ammonia oxidizers at RNA level in future studies.