Nitrogen cycling in the Lake Lugano North Basin & isotope effects during enzymatic nitrate reduction

The dataset accompanies the manuscripts "Microbial nitrogen removal versus recycling in the redox transition zone of a meromictic lake and its coupling to sulfur” and “Nitrogen and oxygen isotope effects during enzymatic nitrate reduction in vitro and by natural lake water consortia”

Files: 

16S rRNA gene sequencing data from the Lake Lugano North Basin and Lake La Cruz:

- Mapping file

- ASV table

- Refseq file

-Tree file

- R Skript data import

- R Skript relative abundance analysis

- R Skript alpha and beta diversity analysis

Isotope effects during nitrate reduction in incubation experiments with Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas sp. strains harboring narG and/or napA nitrate reductase genes:

- Raw data, parameters (N-species concentrations and nitrate isotopes over time)

- Raw data, values (N-species concentrations and nitrate isotopes over time)

- Isotope effects, parameters (Nitrate reduction and nitrite production rates, Rayleigh isotope effects, Δδ18O:Δδ15N-NO3- ratios)

- Isotope effects, values (Nitrate reduction and nitrite production rates, Rayleigh isotope effects, Δδ18O:Δδ15N-NO3- ratios)