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Contrasting microbial community composition and function perspective in sections of a full-scale coking wastewater treatment system

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Abstract

To characterize the microbial community of the coking wastewater (CWW) treatment system and to study the effects of CWW characteristics and operational parameters on microbial communities, active sludge samples were collected from a full-scale CWW treatment plant using three-phase fluidized bed biological reactors. High-throughput MiSeq sequencing was used to examine the 16S rRNA genes of microbiology, revealing a distinct microbial composition among the active sludge samples of three sequential bioreactors. Pseudomonas, Comamonas, and Thiobacillus-related sequences dominated in the anaerobic bioreactor A, aerobic bioreactor O1, and aerobic bioreactor O2 active sludge with relative abundance of 72.59, 56.75, and 27.82 %, respectively. The physico-chemical characteristics of CWW were analyzed by standard methods and operational parameters were recorded to examine their effects on the microbial communities. The redundancy analysis (RDA) results showed that the bacterial communities of bioreactors A, O1, and O2 correlated strongly with cyanides, phenols, and ammonia, respectively. These results expand the knowledge about the biodiversity and population dynamics of microorganisms and discerned the relationships between bacterial communities and environmental variables in the biological treatment processes in the full-scale CWW treatment system.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21207021 and 21377040) and the State Key Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21037001).

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  1. Guangdong Province Key Laboratory for Biotechnology Drug Candidates, School of Biosciences and Biopharmaceutics, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, 510006, People’s Republic of China

    Shuang Zhu, Haizhen Wu, Chaohai Wei, Lin Zhou & Junting Xie

  2. College of Biological Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510006, People’s Republic of China

    Shuang Zhu, Haizhen Wu, Chaohai Wei, Lin Zhou & Junting Xie

  3. School of Environment and Energy, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510006, People’s Republic of China

    Shuang Zhu, Haizhen Wu, Chaohai Wei, Lin Zhou & Junting Xie

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Zhu, S., Wu, H., Wei, C. et al. Contrasting microbial community composition and function perspective in sections of a full-scale coking wastewater treatment system. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 100, 949–960 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00253-015-7009-z

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