Aerobic granules: Microbial landscape and architecture, stages, and practical implications

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 80, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 3433-3441

  Gonzalez Gil, Graciela ^a   Holliger, Christof ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; GRANULAR MATERIALS; GRANULATION; INFORMATION GRANULES; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

DYNAMIC ARCHITECTURE; GRANULAR STRUCTURESS; GRANULE FORMATIONS; LIMITED INFORMATION; MICROBIAL ASSEMBLIES; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; TETRAHEDRAL GRIDS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL RECONSTRUCTION;

PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER);

WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; IMAGE PROCESSING; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; MICROBIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; STAINING; WASTE WATER; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTANT;

AEROBIOSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; OPTICAL IMAGING; STAINING AND LABELING; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84899868654     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00250-14     Document Type: Article

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