Next generation sequencing approaches to evaluate water and wastewater quality

E Garner, BC Davis, E Milligan, MF Blair, I Keenum… - Water Research, 2021 - Elsevier
The emergence of next generation sequencing (NGS) is revolutionizing the potential to
address complex microbiological challenges in the water industry. NGS technologies can …

Bacterial community composition and structure in an Urban River impacted by different pollutant sources

AM Ibekwe, J Ma, SE Murinda - Science of the Total Environment, 2016 - Elsevier
Microbial communities in terrestrial fresh water are diverse and dynamic in composition due
to different environmental factors. The goal of this study was to undertake a comprehensive …

[HTML][HTML] The NSERC Canadian Lake Pulse Network: A national assessment of lake health providing science for water management in a changing climate

Y Huot, CA Brown, G Potvin, D Antoniades… - Science of The Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
The distribution and quality of water resources vary dramatically across Canada, and human
impacts such as land-use and climate changes are exacerbating uncertainties in water …

Practical considerations for sampling and data analysis in contemporary metagenomics-based environmental studies

C Staley, MJ Sadowsky - Journal of microbiological methods, 2018 - Elsevier
Recent advancements in metagenomic-based studies, especially analyses of amplicon-
based DNA sequencing targeting taxonomic marker genes, has led to an unprecedented …

A community multi-omics approach towards the assessment of surface water quality in an urban river system

DJ Beale, AV Karpe, W Ahmed, S Cook… - International journal of …, 2017 - mdpi.com
A multi-omics approach was applied to an urban river system (the Brisbane River (BR),
Queensland, Australia) in order to investigate surface water quality and characterize the …

Metagenomic analysis of planktonic riverine microbial consortia using nanopore sequencing reveals insight into river microbe taxonomy and function

K Reddington, D Eccles, J O'Grady, DM Drown… - …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Background Riverine ecosystems are biogeochemical powerhouses driven largely by
microbial communities that inhabit water columns and sediments. Because rivers are used …

Metagenomic profiling of microbial pathogens in the Little Bighorn River, Montana

S Hamner, BL Brown, NA Hasan, MJ Franklin… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
The Little Bighorn River is the primary source of water for water treatment plants serving the
local Crow Agency population, and has special significance in the spiritual and ceremonial …

Aquatic bacterial communities associated with land use and environmental factors in agricultural landscapes using a metabarcoding approach

W Chen, G Wilkes, IUH Khan, KDM Pintar… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
This study applied a 16S rRNA gene metabarcoding approach to characterize bacterial
community compositional and functional attributes for surface water samples collected …

Anthropogenic effects on bacterial diversity and function along a river‐to‐estuary gradient in Northwest Greece revealed by metagenomics

A Meziti, D Tsementzi, K Ar. Kormas… - Environmental …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Studies assessing the effects of anthropogenic inputs on the taxonomic and functional
diversity of bacterioplankton communities in lotic ecosystems are limited. Here, we applied …

Metagenomics combined with comprehensive validation as a public health risk assessment tool for urban and agricultural run-off

S Fu, Q Yang, Y Sheng, Q Wang, J Wu, Z Qiu, R Lan… - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Early detection of emerging and life-threatening pathogens circulating in complex
environments is urgently required to combat infectious diseases. This study proposed a …