Stable-isotope probing and metagenomics reveal predation by protozoa drives E. Coli removal in slow sand filters

ISME Journal

Volumn 9, Issue , 2015, Pages 797-808

  Haig, Sarah Jane ^a   Schirmer, Melanie ^a   D'Amore, Rosalinda ^b   Gibbs, Joseph ^c   Davies, Robert L ^d   Collins, Gavin ^a,c   Quince, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGA; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; FILTER; GENOMICS; LABORATORY METHOD; LYSIS; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PROBE; PROTOZOAN; SAMPLING; STABLE ISOTOPE; TROPHIC INTERACTION; VIRUS; BIOASSAY; FUNGUS; MUTUALISM; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDATION;

KELVIN RIVER; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

ALGAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGI; PROTOZOA;

CARBON;

ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTE; FILTRATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; RIVER; WATER MANAGEMENT;

ANIMALS; CARBON ISOTOPES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; FILTRATION; METAGENOMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RIVERS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84925213992     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2014.175     Document Type: Article

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