Long-term monitoring reveals stable and remarkably similar microbial communities in parallel full-scale biogas reactors digesting energy crops

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Lucas, Rico ^a   Kuchenbuch, Anne ^a   Fetzer, Ingo ^b   Harms, Hauke ^a,c   Kleinsteuber, Sabine ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c GERMAN CENTRE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH IDIV HALLE JENA LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amplicon pyrosequencing; Anaerobic digestion; Community assemblage; Maize silage; mcrA; T RFLP

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BIODEGRADATION; BIOGAS; ENERGY CROP; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENERALIST; HYDROGEN; METHANOGENESIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; ORGANIC MATTER; SPECIALIZATION; TAXONOMY;

METHANOSARCINA; ZEA MAYS;

ARCHAEAL DNA; BIOFUEL; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE MCRA; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BIOREACTOR; CHLOROFLEXI; CLASSIFICATION; CLOSTRIDIUM; CROP; DNA SEQUENCE; EURYARCHAEOTA; GENETICS; LACTOBACILLUS; MAIZE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; STREPTOCOCCUS;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOFUELS; BIOREACTORS; CHLOROFLEXI; CLOSTRIDIUM; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; DNA RESTRICTION ENZYMES; DNA, ARCHAEAL; EURYARCHAEOTA; LACTOBACILLUS; MICROBIOTA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STREPTOCOCCUS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84938954129     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiv004     Document Type: Article

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