Comparison of bacterial communities in leachate from decomposing bovine carcasses.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Burial is associated with environmental effects such as the contamination of ground or surface water with biological materials generated during the decomposition process. Therefore, bacterial communities in leachates originating from the decomposing bovine carcasses were investigated.

Methods

To understand the process of bovine (Hanwoo) carcass decomposition, we simulated burial using a lab-scale reactor with a volume of 5.15 m3. Leachate samples from 3 carcasses were collected using a peristaltic pump once a month for a period of 5 months, and bacterial communities in samples were identified by pyrosequencing of the 16S rRNA gene.

Results

We obtained a total of 110,442 reads from the triplicate samples of various sampling time points (total of 15 samples),

SUBMITTER: Yang SH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5666202 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature