A framework for establishing predictive relationships between specific bacterial 16S rRNA sequence abundances and biotransformation rates

Water Research

Volumn 70, Issue , 2015, Pages 471-484

  Helbling, Damian E ^a   Johnson, David R ^b,c   Lee, Tae Kwon ^d,e   Scheidegger, Andreas ^b   Fenner, Kathrin ^b,c  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Chemicals of emerging concern; Elastic net; Microbial ecology; Next generation sequencing; Structure function relationship

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; BATCH REACTORS; BIOCONVERSION; MICROORGANISMS; RNA; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

16S RRNA SEQUENCES; CHEMICAL OF EMERGING CONCERN; ELASTIC NET; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCING; PLANT COMMUNITIES; PREDICTIVE RELATIONSHIPS; STRUCTURE-FUNCTION RELATIONSHIP; TAXONOMIC COMPOSITION; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

RATE CONSTANTS;

AMMONIA; BACTERIAL RNA; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; ISOPROTURON; PROPACHLOR; RANITIDINE; RNA 16S; VENLAFAXINE; BACTERIAL DNA; WASTE WATER;

BACTERIUM; BIOMARKER; BIOREACTOR; BIOTRANSFORMATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; RNA; SEWAGE TREATMENT; TAXONOMY;

ARTICLE; BATCH REACTOR; BIOTRANSFORMATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NITROSOMONAS; NITROSPIRA; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ISOLATION; RNA SEQUENCE; TAXONOMY; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; WATER POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; WASTE WATER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NITROSOMONAS; NITROSPIRAE; OTUS;

AMMONIA; BACTERIA; BIOTRANSFORMATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NITROSOMONAS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WASTE WATER;

EID: 84921038692     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2014.12.013     Document Type: Article

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