Seasonal bacterial community dynamics in a full-scale enhanced biological phosphorus removal plant.

ABSTRACT: Activated sludge is one of the most abundant and effective wastewater treatment process used to treat wastewater, and has been used in developed countries for nearly a century. In all that time, several hundreds of studies have explored the bacterial communities responsible for treatment, but most studies were based on a handful of samples and did not consider temporal dynamics. In this study, we used the DNA fingerprinting technique called automated ribosomal intergenic spacer region analysis (ARISA) to study bacterial community dynamics over a two-year period in two different treatment trains. We also used quantitative PCR to measure the variation of five phylogenetically-defined clades within the Accumulibacter lineage, which is a model polyphosphate accumulating organism. The total bac

SUBMITTER: Flowers JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4520395 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature