Comparative metagenomics of biogas-producing microbial communities from production-scale biogas plants operating under wet or dry fermentation conditions

Biotechnology for Biofuels

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Stolze, Yvonne ^a   Zakrzewski, Martha ^b   Maus, Irena ^a   Eikmeyer, Felix ^a   Jaenicke, Sebastian ^a   Rottmann, Nils ^c   Siebner, Clemens ^a   Pühler, Alfred ^a   Schlüter, Andreas ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c NORTH TEC Maschinenbau GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

16S rRNA; Biogas; Dry fermentation; Fragment recruitment; Metagenomics; Methanoculleus bourgensis; Methanogenesis; Microbial communities; Wet fermentation

Indexed keywords

BIOGAS; BIOINFORMATICS; DNA SEQUENCES; GENE ENCODING; GENES; METHANE; MICROORGANISMS; PROCESS CONTROL; RNA; THROUGHPUT;

16S RRNA; DRY FERMENTATION; FRAGMENT RECRUITMENT; METAGENOMICS; METHANOCULLEUS BOURGENSIS; METHANOGENESIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES;

FERMENTATION;

BIOGAS; BIOMASS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DNA; ENZYME; FERMENTATION; GENOMICS; METHANE; METHANOGENESIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); RNA; TAXONOMY;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; EURYARCHAEOTA; FIRMICUTES; METHANOCULLEUS BOURGENSIS; METHANOMICROBIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; SPIROCHAETES;

EID: 84924046414     PISSN: 17546834     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13068-014-0193-8     Document Type: Article

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