Substrate type and free ammonia determine bacterial community structure in full-scale mesophilic anaerobic digesters treating cattle or swine manure

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue NOV, 2015, Pages

  Li, Jiabao ^a   Rui, Junpeng ^a   Yao, Minjie ^a   Zhang, Shiheng ^a   Yan, Xuefeng ^a   Wang, Yuanpeng ^b   Yan, Zhiying ^a   Li, Xiangzhen ^a  

^a CHENGDU INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (China)

^b XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Anaerobic digester; Animal manure; Bacterial community; Core community; Free ammonia

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; BIOGAS; GENOMIC DNA;

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; ARTICLE; BACTEROIDETES; CHLOROFLEXI; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA EXTRACTION; FIRMICUTES; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; ORGANIC WASTE; PROTEOBACTERIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SLUDGE; TAXONOMY;

EID: 84949795882     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.01337     Document Type: Article

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