Changes in the structure and function of microbial communities in drinking water treatment bioreactors upon addition of phosphorus

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 7473-7481

  Li, Xu ^a,d   Upadhyaya, Giridhar ^a   Yuen, Wangki ^a,e   Brown, Jess ^b   Morgenroth, Eberhard ^c   Raskin, Lutgarde ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b CAROLLO ENGINEERS   (United States)

^c SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^e University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA GENE; BENCH SCALE REACTOR; BIOLOGICALLY ACTIVE CARBON; CLONE LIBRARY; CONTAMINANT REMOVAL; CONTAMINATED GROUNDWATER; DRINKING WATER; DRINKING WATER PRODUCTION; DRINKING WATER TREATMENT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; MICROBIAL COMPOSITION; MOLECULAR TECHNIQUES; NITRATE REMOVAL; OPERATING CONDITION; PHOSPHORUS ADDITION; PILOT SCALE; PILOT-SCALE REACTORS; REACTOR PERFORMANCE; REAL-TIME QUANTITATIVE PCR; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; RESISTANT BACTERIA;

BACTERIOLOGY; BIOCONVERSION; BIOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT; BIOREACTORS; CLONING; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; PHOSPHORUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POTABLE WATER; RNA; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

NITROGEN REMOVAL;

BACTERIAL DNA; NITRATE; PERCHLORATE; PERCHLORIC ACID; PHOSPHORUS; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

ABUNDANCE; BACTERIUM; BIOREACTOR; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DRINKING WATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PHOSPHORUS; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; BIOREACTOR; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTANT;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOREACTORS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRATES; PERCHLORIC ACID; PHOSPHORUS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION;

AZOSPIRA; DECHLOROMONAS; ZOOGLOEA;

EID: 78649717392     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01232-10     Document Type: Article

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