Constructed wetlands for pollution control

H Wu, R Wang, P Yan, S Wu, Z Chen, Y Zhao… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Artificial wetlands are used in over 50 countries to sustainably treat wastewater. These
constructed wetlands (CWs) make use of natural biogeochemical and physical processes to …

Innovations to culturing the uncultured microbial majority

WH Lewis, G Tahon, P Geesink, DZ Sousa… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Despite the surge of microbial genome data, experimental testing is important to confirm
inferences about the cell biology, ecological roles and evolution of microorganisms. As the …

Microbiome differential abundance methods produce different results across 38 datasets

JT Nearing, GM Douglas, MG Hayes… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Identifying differentially abundant microbes is a common goal of microbiome studies.
Multiple methods are used interchangeably for this purpose in the literature. Yet, there are …

Microbiome definition re-visited: old concepts and new challenges

G Berg, D Rybakova, D Fischer, T Cernava… - Microbiome, 2020 - Springer
The field of microbiome research has evolved rapidly over the past few decades and has
become a topic of great scientific and public interest. As a result of this rapid growth in …

MiDAS 4: A global catalogue of full-length 16S rRNA gene sequences and taxonomy for studies of bacterial communities in wastewater treatment plants

MKD Dueholm, M Nierychlo, KS Andersen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Microbial communities are responsible for biological wastewater treatment, but our
knowledge of their diversity and function is still poor. Here, we sequence more than 5 million …

A quantitative framework reveals ecological drivers of grassland microbial community assembly in response to warming

D Ning, M Yuan, L Wu, Y Zhang, X Guo, X Zhou… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Unraveling the drivers controlling community assembly is a central issue in ecology.
Although it is generally accepted that selection, dispersal, diversification and drift are major …

Simultaneous biological removal of nitrogen and phosphorus from secondary effluent of wastewater treatment plants by advanced treatment: A review

Q Zhou, H Sun, L Jia, W Wu, J Wang - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
With the advancement of water ecological protection and water control standard, it is the
general trend to upgrade the wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). The simultaneous …

Diversified metabolism makes novel Thauera strain highly competitive in low carbon wastewater treatment

T Ren, Y Chi, Y Wang, X Shi, X Jin, P Jin - Water Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Thauera, as one of the core members of wastewater biological treatment systems, plays an
important role in the process of nitrogen and phosphorus removal from low-carbon source …

MGnify: the microbiome analysis resource in 2020

AL Mitchell, A Almeida, M Beracochea… - Nucleic acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract MGnify (http://www. ebi. ac. uk/metagenomics) provides a free to use platform for the
assembly, analysis and archiving of microbiome data derived from sequencing microbial …

[HTML][HTML] MiDAS 3: an ecosystem-specific reference database, taxonomy and knowledge platform for activated sludge and anaerobic digesters reveals species-level …

M Nierychlo, KS Andersen, Y Xu, N Green, C Jiang… - Water Research, 2020 - Elsevier
The function of the microbiomes in wastewater treatment systems and anaerobic digesters is
dictated by the physiological activity of their members and complex interactions between …