High Diversity and Functional Potential of Undescribed "Acidobacteriota" in Danish Wastewater Treatment Plants.

ABSTRACT: Microbial communities in water resource recovery facilities encompass a large diversity of poorly characterized lineages that could have undescribed process-critical functions. Recently, it was shown that taxa belonging to "Acidobacteriota" are abundant in Danish full-scale activated sludge wastewater treatment plants (WWTP), and here we investigated their diversity, distribution, and functional potential. "Acidobacteriota" taxa were identified using a comprehensive full-length 16S rRNA gene reference dataset and amplicon sequencing surveys across 37 WWTPs. Members of this phylum were diverse, belonging to 14 families, eight of which are completely uncharacterized and lack type strains. Several lineages were abundant, with relative abundances of up to 5% of the microbial community. Genome

SUBMITTER: Kristensen JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8100337 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature