Functionally stable and phylogenetically diverse microbial enrichments from microbial fuel cells during wastewater treatment

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Ishii, Shun'ichi ^a,b,d   Suzuki, Shino ^a   Norden Krichmar, Trina M ^a   Nealson, Kenneth H ^a,c   Sekiguchi, Yuji ^b   Gorby, Yuri A ^c   Bretschger, Orianna ^a  

^a J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; ORGANIC MATTER; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTEROIDETES; BATCH PROCESS; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; BIOFILM; BIOREACTOR; CARBON SOURCE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; DENSITY; EFFLUENT; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIAL FUEL CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGANIC MATTER PRODUCTION; PHYLOGENY; POWER SUPPLY; PROCESS MONITORING; REPRODUCIBILITY; RNA SEQUENCE; TURBIDITY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; BIOENERGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEWAGE; WATER MANAGEMENT;

BIOELECTRIC ENERGY SOURCES; BIOLOGICAL OXYGEN DEMAND ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84863421306     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030495     Document Type: Article

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