Microbial ecology of full-scale wastewater treatment systems in the Polar Arctic Circle: Archaea, Bacteria and Fungi

Seven full-scale biological wastewater treatment systems located in the Polar Arctic Circle region in Finland were investigated to determine their Archaea, Bacteria and Fungi community structure, and their relationship with the operational conditions of the bioreactors by the means of quantitative P...

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Published in:Scientific Reports
Main Authors: Gonzalez-Martinez, Alejandro, Sihvonen, Maija, Munoz-Palazon, Barbara, Rodriguez-Sanchez, Alejandro, Mikola, Anna, Vahala, Riku
Other Authors: Department of Built Environment, Water and Environmental Eng., University of Granada, Aalto-yliopisto, Aalto University
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2018
Subjects:
ACTIVATED-SLUDGE
MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR
NITROGEN REMOVAL
TREATMENT PLANTS
NY-ALESUND
DIVERSITY
COMMUNITY
SVALBARD
DYNAMICS
SOIL
Arctic
Svalbard
Online Access:https://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/handle/123456789/30256
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-20633-5
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Summary:Seven full-scale biological wastewater treatment systems located in the Polar Arctic Circle region in Finland were investigated to determine their Archaea, Bacteria and Fungi community structure, and their relationship with the operational conditions of the bioreactors by the means of quantitative PCR, massive parallel sequencing and multivariate redundancy analysis. The results showed dominance of Archaea and Bacteria members in the bioreactors. The activated sludge systems showed strong selection of Bacteria but not for Archaea and Fungi, as suggested by diversity analyses. Core OTUs in influent and bioreactors were classified as Methanobrevibacter, Methanosarcina, Terrestrial Group Thaumarchaeota and unclassified Euryarchaeota member for Archaea; Trichococcus, Leptotrichiaceae and Comamonadaceae family, and Methylorosula for Bacteria and Trichosporonaceae family for Fungi. All influents shared core OTUs in all domains, but in bioreactors this did not occur for Bacteria. Oligotype structure of core OTUs showed several ubiquitous Fungi oligotypes as dominant in sewage and bioreactors. Multivariate redundancy analyses showed that the majority of core OTUs were related to organic matter and nutrients removal. Also, there was evidence of competition among Archaea and Fungi core OTUs, while all Bacteria OTUs were positively correlated among them. The results obtained highlighted interesting features of extremely cold temperature bioreactors. Peer reviewed

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