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Development of Sulfidogenic Sludge from Marine Sediments and Trichloroethylene Reduction in an Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket Reactor
Published on: October 15, 2015
[Structure and dynamics of microbial community in the denitrifying sulfide removal process]
Hao Yu1, Ai-Jie Wang, Chuan Chen
1State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, China micro_yh@126.com
Abstract:
In order to investigate the relationship between the structure of microbial community and the operational efficiency of the denitrifying sulfide removal (DSR) process, whole genomic DNA was extracted from sludge samples at each operational stage. Functional gene arrays (FGAs), a high throughput metagenomic technology, was employed to characterize the change of microbial community structure in DSR process. The results of diversity indices (Simpson and Shannon indices) and clustering showed that the microbial community structure changed greatly with stages according to the operational conditions. In stage I and II, diversity indices and richness decreased due to acclimation of the microbial community to the environment, whereas they increased notably according to the maturing of sludge which may indicate that the bioreactor entered the steady stage. Analysis of key functional genes showed that the abundance of genes did not only reflect the activities of functional bacteria but also had a close relationship with the reactor performance.
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