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Build-up of symbiotic methanogenic biofilms on solid supports

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Support surfaces can have selective action which determines the relative quantities of acetogens (propionate and butyrate degraders) and methanogens (acetate degraders) immobilized in a symbiotic biofilm. The preference of the bacteria for hydrophilic substrata as their immobilization supports is in the order; butyrate degraders, acetate degraders followed by propionate degraders.

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  1. Department of Chemical Engineering, University of British Columbia, V6T 1W5, Vancouver, B.C., Canada

    Jian Yu & Kenneth L. Pinder

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Yu, J., Pinder, K.L. Build-up of symbiotic methanogenic biofilms on solid supports. Biotechnol Lett 14, 989–994 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01020643

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