Broad Dissemination of Plasmids across Groundwater-Fed Rapid Sand Filter Microbiomes.

ABSTRACT: Biological rapid sand filtration is a commonly employed method for the removal of organic and inorganic impurities in water which relies on the degradative properties of microorganisms for the removal of diverse contaminants, but their bioremediation capabilities vary greatly across waterworks. Bioaugmentation efforts with degradation-proficient bacteria have proven difficult due to the inability of the exogenous microbes to stably colonize the sand filters. Plasmids are extrachromosomal DNA elements that can often transfer between bacteria and facilitate the flow of genetic information across microbiomes, yet their ability to spread within rapid sand filters has remained unknown. Here, we examine the permissiveness of rapid sand filter communities toward four environmentally transmissible

SUBMITTER: Pinilla-Redondo R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8630534 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature