Prokaryotic taxonomy and nomenclature in the age of big sequence data

P Hugenholtz, M Chuvochina, A Oren… - the ISME …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The classification of life forms into a hierarchical system (taxonomy) and the application of
names to this hierarchy (nomenclature) is at a turning point in microbiology. The …

The Phylogeny, Biodiversity, and Ecology of the Chloroflexi in Activated Sludge

LBM Speirs, DTF Rice, S Petrovski… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
It is now clear that several of the filamentous bacteria in activated sludge wastewater
treatment plants globally, are members of the phylum Chloroflexi. They appear to be more …

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 …

Connecting structure to function with the recovery of over 1000 high-quality metagenome-assembled genomes from activated sludge using long-read sequencing

CM Singleton, F Petriglieri, JM Kristensen… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Microorganisms play crucial roles in water recycling, pollution removal and resource
recovery in the wastewater industry. The structure of these microbial communities is …

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 …

[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 …

Candidatus Dechloromonas phosphoritropha” and “Ca. D. phosphorivorans”, novel polyphosphate accumulating organisms abundant in wastewater treatment …

F Petriglieri, C Singleton, M Peces… - The ISME …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Members of the genus Dechloromonas are often abundant in enhanced biological
phosphorus removal (EBPR) systems and are recognized putative polyphosphate …

Prokaryotic viruses impact functional microorganisms in nutrient removal and carbon cycle in wastewater treatment plants

Y Chen, Y Wang, D Paez-Espino, MF Polz… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
As one of the largest biotechnological applications, activated sludge (AS) systems in
wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) harbor enormous viruses, with 10-1,000-fold higher …

MiDAS 5: Global diversity of bacteria and archaea in anaerobic digesters

MKD Dueholm, KS Andersen, AKC Korntved… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Anaerobic digestion of organic waste into methane and carbon dioxide (biogas) is carried
out by complex microbial communities. Here, we use full-length 16S rRNA gene sequencing …

Novel syntrophic bacteria in full-scale anaerobic digesters revealed by genome-centric metatranscriptomics

L Hao, TY Michaelsen, CM Singleton… - The ISME …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Short-chain fatty acid (SCFA) degradation is an important process in methanogenic
ecosystems, and is usually catalyzed by SCFA-oxidizing bacteria in syntrophy with …