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Thirteen years ago, it was shown that nitrogen fixation occurred in the methanogenic Archaea (Beley et al., 1984; Murray, Zinder, 1984). Since then, the fundamental mechanism of nitrogen fixation in the Archaea has proven similar to that in the bacteria (Lobo, Zinder, 1992). In addition, nifH, D, and K homologues have been cloned from methanogens, and two glnB-like genes have been found between nifH and nifD (Souillard, Sibold, 1989).
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Leigh, J.A., Kessler, P.S., Blank, D.C. (1998). Regulation of nif Gene Transcription in Methanococcus maripaludis . In: Elmerich, C., Kondorosi, A., Newton, W.E. (eds) Biological Nitrogen Fixation for the 21st Century. Current Plant Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture, vol 31. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5159-7_36
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