Global diversity and biogeography of bacterial communities in wastewater treatment plants

L Wu, D Ning, B Zhang, Y Li, P Zhang, X Shan… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Microorganisms in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are essential for water purification
to protect public and environmental health. However, the diversity of microorganisms and …

The war using microbes: A sustainable approach for wastewater management

AK Priya, R Pachaiappan, PS Kumar, AA Jalil… - Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Anthropogenic activities and population growth have resulted in a reduced availability of
drinking water. To ensure consistency in the existence of drinking water, it is inevitable to …

Prospects for multi-omics in the microbial ecology of water engineering

EA McDaniel, SA Wahl, S Ishii, A Pinto, R Ziels… - Water Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Advances in high-throughput sequencing technologies and bioinformatics approaches over
almost the last three decades have substantially increased our ability to explore …

Seasonal dynamics of the microbial community in two full-scale wastewater treatment plants: diversity, composition, phylogenetic group based assembly and co …

C Sun, B Zhang, D Ning, Y Zhang, T Dai, L Wu, T Li… - Water research, 2021 - Elsevier
The optimal operation and functional stability of a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP)
strongly depend on the properties of its microbial community. However, a knowledge gap …

Comammox Nitrospira are the dominant ammonia oxidizers in a mainstream low dissolved oxygen nitrification reactor

P Roots, Y Wang, AF Rosenthal, JS Griffin, F Sabba… - Water research, 2019 - Elsevier
Recent findings show that a subset of bacteria affiliated with Nitrospira, a genus known for its
importance in nitrite oxidation for biological nutrient removal applications, are capable of …

Biodegradability of wastewater determines microbial assembly mechanisms in full-scale wastewater treatment plants

B Zhang, D Ning, Y Yang, JD Van Nostrand, J Zhou… - Water research, 2020 - Elsevier
Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are critical for maintaining sustainable development
in modern societies, wherein microbial populations residing in activated sludge (AS) are …

Mass-immigration determines the assembly of activated sludge microbial communities

G Dottorini, TY Michaelsen… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The assembly of bacterial communities in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) is affected
by immigration via wastewater streams, but the impact and extent of bacterial immigrants are …

Temperature mediated the balance between stochastic and deterministic processes and reoccurrence of microbial community during treating aniline wastewater

H Chen, Z Chen, X Chu, Y Deng, S Qing, C Sun… - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Seasonal temperature changes significantly affect microbial community diversity,
composition, and performance in wastewater treatment plants. However, the community …

Adaptive evolution laws of biofilm under emerging pollutant-induced stress: Community assembly-driven structure response

B Kong, L Jin, Y Zhao, H Huang… - … Science & Technology, 2023 - ACS Publications
The widely used biofilm process in advanced wastewater treatment is currently challenged
by numerous exotic emerging pollutants (EPs), and the underlying principle of the challenge …

AHLs-mediated quorum sensing threshold and its response towards initial adhesion of wastewater biofilms

J Wang, Q Liu, D Dong, H Hu, B Wu, H Ren - Water Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Quorum sensing (QS) plays a crucial role during initial biofilm formation, however the QS
threshold and the response of biofilm formation towards N-acyl-homoserine lactones (AHLs) …