High biodiversity in a benzene-degrading nitrate-reducing culture is sustained by a few primary consumers

High biodiversity in a benzene-degrading nitrate-reducing culture is sustained by a few primary consumers

Chrats Melkonian and colleagues use metagenomics and transcriptomics to study microbial dynamics in a 15-year old bioreactor. In contrast to what is expected in a system where benzene is the primary carbon and energy source, relatively few members of the microbial community can degrade this compound...

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Main Authors: Chrats Melkonian, Lucas Fillinger, Siavash Atashgahi, Ulisses Nunes da Rocha, Esther Kuiper, Brett Olivier, Martin Braster, Willi Gottstein, Rick Helmus, John R. Parsons, Hauke Smidt, Marcelle van der Waals, Jan Gerritse, Bernd W. Brandt, Wilfred F. M. Röling, Douwe Molenaar, Rob J. M. van Spanning
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-05-01
Series:Communications Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-01948-y

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