Characterization and comparison of bacterial communities selected in conventional activated sludge and membrane bioreactor pilot plants: A focus on nitrospira and planctomycetes bacterial phyla

Current Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 77-90

  Chiellini, Carolina ^a   Munz, Giulio ^b   Petroni, Giulio ^a   Lubello, Claudio ^b   Mori, Gualtiero ^c   Verni, Franco ^a   Vannini, Claudia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c CER2CO (CEntro Ricerca Reflui Conciari)   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRITE; NITROGEN; RNA 16S;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; BIOREACTOR; CLADISTICS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); EFFLUENT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NITRIFICATION; NITRIFYING BACTERIUM; NITROSPIRA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANCTOMYCETES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIVERSITY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL;

BACTERIA; BIOREACTORS; BIOTA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; MEMBRANES; METAGENOME; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEWAGE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NITROSPIRA; PLANCTOMYCETES;

EID: 84878245112     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: 14320991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-013-0333-6     Document Type: Article

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