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Unequal costs of community stress responses


Nitritation depends on selectively suppressing nitrite-oxidizing bacteria. Research now shows that quorum sensing reshapes how ammonia- and nitrite-oxidizers respond to inhibition, revealing a hidden layer of metabolic control in nitrogen removal.

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Fig. 1: Quorum sensing-associated metabolic regulations in response to free nitrous acid stress.

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Choi, H., Okabe, S. & Oshiki, M. Unequal costs of community stress responses.
Nat Water (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-026-00686-x

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