Monitoring microbial communities' dynamics during the start-up of microbial fuel cells by high-throughput screening techniques.

ABSTRACT: Microbial Electrochemical Technologies are based on the use of electrochemically active microorganisms that can carry out extracellular electron transfer to an electrode while they are oxidizing the organic compounds. The dynamics and changes of the bacterial community in the anode biofilm and planktonic broth of an acetate fed batch single chamber air cathode MFC have been studied by combing flow-cytometry and Illumina sequencing techniques. At the beginning of the test, from 0 h to 70 h, microbial planktonic communities changed from four groups to two groups, as revealed by DNA content, and from three groups to one group based on the cell membrane polarization revealed by a DiOC₆(3) probe. Between 4^th day and 13^th day, microbial communities changed from o

SUBMITTER: Pepe Sciarria T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6374581 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature