Previously unclassified bacteria dominate during thermophilic and mesophilic anaerobic pre-treatment of primary sludge

Systematic and Applied Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 281-290

  Pervin, Hasina M ^a   Batstone, Damien J ^a   Bond, Philip L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anaerobic digestion; Brachymonas denitrificans; Fluorescence in situ hybridisation (FISH); Full cycle 16S rRNA approach; Hydrolysis fermentation; Microbial diversity; Primary sludge; Terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T RFLP); Thermophilic pre treatment; TPAD

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BRACHYMONAS; CLOSTRIDIUM; COMAMONAS; LYSOBACTER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SLUDGE TREATMENT; TERMINAL RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; BIODIVERSITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEWAGE; TEMPERATURE; WASTE WATER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BRACHYMONAS; BRACHYMONAS DENITRIFICANS; CLOSTRIDIUM; COMAMONAS; LYSOBACTER; UNCLASSIFIED BACTERIA;

EID: 84877803332     PISSN: 07232020     EISSN: 16180984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.syapm.2013.03.003     Document Type: Article

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