Monitoring associations between clade-level variation, overall community structure and ecosystem function in enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) systems using terminal-restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP)

Water Research

Volumn 44, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 4908-4923

  Slater, F R ^a   Johnson, C R ^b   Blackall, L L ^c   Beiko, R G ^d   Bond, P L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^d DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATCH REACTORS; BIOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT; ECOSYSTEMS; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY;

ACCUMULIBACTER; COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS; ENHANCED BIOLOGICAL PHOSPHORUS REMOVAL; PERFORMANCE; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; REMOVAL PERFORMANCE; REMOVAL SYSTEMS; SEQUENCING BATCH REACTORS; TERMINAL RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISMS;

PHOSPHORUS;

GENOMIC DNA; RNA 16S;

ABUNDANCE; BACTERIUM; CLADISTICS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FLUORESCENCE; MONITORING; PHOSPHORUS; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; POLYMORPHISM; WASTE FACILITY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOCHEMISTRY; CANDIDATUS; CLADISTICS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DNA EXTRACTION; ECOSYSTEM; ENHANCED BIOLOGICAL PHOSPHORUS REMOVAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCING BATCH REACTOR; TERMINAL RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

ACCUMULIBACTER PHOSPHATIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDATUS COMPETIBACTER PHOSPHATIS;

EID: 77957316683     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2010.07.028     Document Type: Article

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