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Microbial functional trait of rRNA operon copy numbers increases with organic levels in anaerobic digesters.

Authors :
Wu, Linwei
Wu, Linwei
Yang, Yunfeng
Chen, Si
Jason Shi, Zhou
Zhao, Mengxin
Zhu, Zhenwei
Yang, Sihang
Qu, Yuanyuan
Ma, Qiao
He, Zhili
Zhou, Jizhong
He, Qiang
Wu, Linwei
Wu, Linwei
Yang, Yunfeng
Chen, Si
Jason Shi, Zhou
Zhao, Mengxin
Zhu, Zhenwei
Yang, Sihang
Qu, Yuanyuan
Ma, Qiao
He, Zhili
Zhou, Jizhong
He, Qiang
Source :
The ISME journal; vol 11, iss 12, 2874-2878; 1751-7362
Publication Year :
2017

Abstract

The ecological concept of the r-K life history strategy is widely applied in macro-ecology to characterize functional traits of taxa. However, its adoption in microbial communities is limited, owing to the lack of a measureable, convenient functional trait for classification. In this study, we performed an experiment of stepwise organic amendments in triplicate anaerobic digesters. We found that high resource availability significantly favored microbial r-strategists such as Bacillus spp. Incremental resource availability heightened average rRNA operon copy number of microbial community, resulting in a strong, positive correlation (r>0.74, P<0.008). This study quantifies how resource availability manipulations influence microbial community composition and supports the idea that rRNA operon copy number is an ecologically meaningful trait which reflects resource availability.

Details

Database :
OAIster
Journal :
The ISME journal; vol 11, iss 12, 2874-2878; 1751-7362
Notes :
application/pdf, The ISME journal vol 11, iss 12, 2874-2878 1751-7362
Publication Type :
Electronic Resource
Accession number :
edsoai.on1367419792
Document Type :
Electronic Resource