Unraveling the Microbial Interactions and Metabolic Potentials in Pre- and Post-treated Sludge from a Wastewater Treatment Plant Using Metagenomic Studies.

ABSTRACT: Sewage waste represents an ecosystem of complex and interactive microbial consortia which proliferate with different kinetics according to their individual genetic as well as metabolic potential. We performed metagenomic shotgun sequencing on Ion-Torrent platform, to explore the microbial community structure, their biological interactions and associated functional capacity of pre-treated/raw sludge (RS) and post-treated/dried sludge (DS) of wastewater treatment plant. Bacterial phylotypes belonging to Epsilonproteobacteria (∼45.80%) dominated the RS with relatively few Archaea (∼1.94%) whereas DS has the dominance of beta- (30.23%) and delta- (13.38%) classes of Proteobacteria with relatively greater abundance of Archaea (∼7.18%). In particular, Epsilo

SUBMITTER: Sidhu C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5515832 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature