Guts of the Urban Ecosystem: Microbial Ecology of Sewer Infrastructure.

ABSTRACT: Microbes have inhabited the oceans and soils for millions of years and are uniquely adapted to their habitat. In contrast, sewer infrastructure in modern cities dates back only ~150 years. Sewer pipes transport human waste and provide a view into public health, but the resident organisms that likely modulate these features are relatively unexplored. Here, we show that the bacterial assemblages sequenced from untreated wastewater in 71 U.S. cities were highly coherent at a fine sequence level, suggesting that urban infrastructure separated by great spatial distances can give rise to strikingly similar communities. Within the overall microbial community structure, temperature had a discernible impact on the distribution patterns of closely related amplicon sequence variants, resulting in war

SUBMITTER: Roguet A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9426572 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature