| deciphering the evolution and metabolism of an anammox bacterium from a community genome. | anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) has become a main focus in oceanography and wastewater treatment. it is also the nitrogen cycle's major remaining biochemical enigma. among its features, the occurrence of hydrazine as a free intermediate of catabolism, the biosynthesis of ladderane lipids and the role of cytoplasm differentiation are unique in biology. here we use environmental genomics--the reconstruction of genomic data directly from the environment--to assemble the genome of the uncultu ... | 2006 | 16598256 |