Linking microbial community structure, interactions and function in anaerobic digesters using new molecular techniques

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 27, Issue , 2014, Pages 55-64

  Vanwonterghem, Inka ^a   Jensen, Paul D ^a   Ho, Dang P ^a   Batstone, Damien J ^a   Tyson, Gene W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL STABILITY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; ISOTOPES; PULP DIGESTERS;

ANAEROBIC DIGESTER; ENGINEERED SYSTEMS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; MOLECULAR TECHNIQUES; NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS; REACTOR PERFORMANCE;

MICROORGANISMS;

GENOMIC DNA; MESSENGER RNA; RNA 16S;

AMPLICON; ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTEROIDETES; CLOSTRIDIA; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FIRMICUTES; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; ISOTOPE LABELING; MARKER GENE; METABOLOMICS; METAGENOMICS; METAPROTEOMICS; METATRANSCRIPTOMICS; MICROAUTORADIOGRAPHY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; REACTOR; REVIEW; RNA GENE; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

ANAEROBIOSIS; BIOREACTORS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENOME, BACTERIAL; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; METABOLOMICS; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS; PROTEOMICS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84888425488     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: 18790429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2013.11.004     Document Type: Review

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