Core taxa, co-occurrence pattern, diversity, and metabolic pathways contributing to robust anaerobic biodegradation of chlorophenol

M Lin, C Pan, C Qian, F Tang, S Zhao, J Guo… - Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
It is hard to achieve robustness in anaerobic biodegradation of trichlorophenol (TCP). We
hypothesized that specific combinations of environmental factors determine phylogenetic …

Defluorination as the key trait to gauge the biodegradability of fluorinated pollutants in environmental microbial communities.

DAM Alexandrino, MF Carvalho - Methods in Enzymology, 2024 - europepmc.org
Research on microbial defluorination is largely centred on controlled experiments using
axenic or well defined microbial inocula. These approaches serve a relevant purpose in the …

Thematic issue on anaerobic biological dehalogenation

BV Kjellerup, I Nijenhuis… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Anaerobic microbial dehalogenation plays a role in both pristine as well as contaminated
environments as organohalides can be produced by natural processes and are present as …