Microbial community composition and dynamics of moving bed biofilm reactor systems treating municipal sewage

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 855-864

  Biswas, Kristi ^a   Turner, Susan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA GENE; ACTIVATED SLUDGE SYSTEMS; ARCHAEA; ARCHAEAL; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BIOVOLUMES; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FISH ANALYSIS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT; METHANOSARCINALES; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; MOVING BED BIOFILM REACTORS; MUNICIPAL SEWAGE; PLANKTONIC COMMUNITY; RIBOSOMAL INTERGENIC SPACER ANALYSIS; SULFATE REDUCING; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS; WELLINGTON , NEW ZEALAND;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS; BIOREACTORS; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENES; INDUSTRIAL WATER TREATMENT; MICROORGANISMS; RNA; SEAWATER; SEWAGE; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

BIOFILMS;

ARCHAEAL DNA; ARCHAEAL RNA; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

ABUNDANCE; ACTIVATED SLUDGE; BIOFILM; BIOREACTOR; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DOMESTIC WASTE; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; INFILTRATION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MORPHOLOGY; PROKARYOTE; SEAWATER; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SUSPENDED LOAD; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOFILM; BIOREACTOR; BIOTA; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; NEW ZEALAND; PHYLOGENY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEWAGE;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BIOFILMS; BIOREACTORS; BIOTA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, ARCHAEAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, RRNA; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; NEW ZEALAND; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, ARCHAEAL; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SEWAGE;

NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; WELLINGTON [NORTH ISLAND];

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CLOSTRIDIA; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; METHANOSARCINALES;

EID: 84856143932     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.06570-11     Document Type: Article

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