🦠 New #symbionts in #wastewater: #denitrifying #protist #endosymbionts are found in #sewage plants all over the world. One common species releases #nitrousoxide. Our now @isme-microbes.bsky.social mpi-bremen.de/en/Page6579.... doi.org/10.1093/isme... @daanspeth.bsky.social @einzeller.bsky.social

Respiratory endosymbionts, that allow their ciliate hosts to breathe nitrate instead of (or in addition to) oxygen are frequent members of the wastewater microbiome. 🦠 🖥️🧬 Great to see this work by @louison-nicolas.bsky.social published in ISME coummuncations! doi.org/10.1093/isme...