Metabolic adaptation of microbial communities to ammonium stress in a high solid anaerobic digester with dewatered sludge

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Dai, Xiaohu ^a   Yan, Han ^a   Li, Ning ^a   He, Jin ^a   Ding, Yueling ^a   Dai, Lingling ^a   Dong, Bin ^a  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; CARBON DIOXIDE;

ANAEROBIC GROWTH; BIOREACTOR; CLOSTRIDIALES; METABOLISM; METHANOSARCINA; MICROBIOLOGY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SEWAGE;

ACETATES; AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; ANAEROBIOSIS; BIOREACTORS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLOSTRIDIALES; METHANOSARCINA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SEWAGE;

EID: 84975469770     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep28193     Document Type: Article

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