Convergent community structure of algal-bacterial consortia and its effects on advanced wastewater treatment and biomass production.

ABSTRACT: Microalgal-bacterial consortium is an effective way to meet increasingly stringent standards in wastewater treatment. However, the mechanism of wastewater removal effect has not been properly explained in community structure by phycosphere. And little is known about that the concept of macroecology was introduced into phycosphere to explain the phenomenon. In the study, the algal-bacterial consortia with different ratios of algae and sludge were cultured in same aerobic wastewater within 48 h in photobioreactors (PSBRs). Community structure at start and end was texted by metagenomic analysis. Bray-Curtis similarities analysis based on microbial community showed that there was obvious convergent succession in all consortia, which is well known as "convergence" in macroecology. The result sh

SUBMITTER: Qi F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8548336 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature