Functional conservation of microbial communities determines composition predictability in anaerobic digestion.

ABSTRACT: A major challenge in managing and engineering microbial communities is determining whether and how microbial community responses to environmental alterations can be predicted and explained, especially in microorganism-driven systems. We addressed this challenge by monitoring microbial community responses to the periodic addition of the same feedstock throughout anaerobic digestion, a typical microorganism-driven system where microorganisms degrade and transform the feedstock. The immediate and delayed response consortia were assemblages of microorganisms whose abundances significantly increased on the first or third day after feedstock addition. The immediate response consortia were more predictable than the delayed response consortia and showed a reproducible and predictable order-level c

SUBMITTER: Lin Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10579369 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature