{"title":"Variation of Bacterial and Archaeal Community Structures in a Full-Scale Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment.","authors":"Xiu-Lu Lang, Xiang Chen, Ai-Ling Xu, Zhi-Wen Song, Xin Wang, He-Bing Wang","doi":"10.1155/2018/9319345","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/9319345","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Microorganisms play important roles in the reduction of organic and inorganic pollutants in constructed wetlands used for the treatment of wastewater. However, the diversity and structure of microbial community in constructed wetland system remain poorly known. In this study, the Illumina MiSeq Sequencing of 16S rDNA was used to analyze the bacterial and archaeal microbial community structures of soil and water in a free surface flow constructed wetland, and the differences of bacterial communities and archaeal compositions between soil and water were compared. The results showed that the Proteobacteria were the dominant bacteria, making up 35.38%~48.66% relative abundance. Euryarchaeotic were the absolute dominant archaea in the influent sample with the relative abundance of 93.29%, while Thaumarchaeota showed dominance in the other three samples, making up 50.58%~75.70%. The relative abundances of different species showed great changes in bacteria and archaea, and the number of dominant species in bacteria was much higher than that in archaea. Compared to archaea, the community compositions of bacteria were more abundant and the changes were more significant. Meanwhile, bacteria and archaea had large differences in compositions between water and soil. The microbial richness in water was significantly higher than that in soil. Simultaneously, soil had a significant enrichment effect on some microbial flora.</p>","PeriodicalId":49105,"journal":{"name":"Archaea-An International Microbiological Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2018-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1155/2018/9319345","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36660177","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea (AOA) Play with Ammonia-Oxidizing Bacteria (AOB) in Nitrogen Removal from Wastewater.","authors":"Zhixuan Yin, Xuejun Bi, Chenlu Xu","doi":"10.1155/2018/8429145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/8429145","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>An increase in the number of publications in recent years indicates that besides ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB), ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) may play an important role in nitrogen removal from wastewater, gaining wide attention in the wastewater engineering field. This paper reviews the current knowledge on AOA and AOB involved in wastewater treatment systems and summarises the environmental factors affecting AOA and AOB. Current findings reveal that AOA have stronger environmental adaptability compared with AOB under extreme environmental conditions (such as low temperature and low oxygen level). However, there is still little information on the cooperation and competition relationship between AOA and AOB, and other microbes related to nitrogen removal, which needs further exploration. Furthermore, future studies are proposed to develop novel nitrogen removal processes dominated by AOA by parameter optimization.</p>","PeriodicalId":49105,"journal":{"name":"Archaea-An International Microbiological Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2018-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1155/2018/8429145","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36568292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effects of Aged Oil Sludge on Soil Physicochemical Properties and Fungal Diversity Revealed by High-Throughput Sequencing Analysis.","authors":"Huihui Wang, Shaoping Kuang, Qiaolin Lang, Wenjuan Yu","doi":"10.1155/2018/9264259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/9264259","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The oilfield soil was contaminated for years by large quantities of aged oil sludge generated in the petroleum industry. In this study, physicochemical properties, contents of main pollutants, and fungal diversity of the aged oil sludge-contaminated soil were analyzed. Results revealed that aged oil sludge significantly changed physical and chemical properties of the receiving soil and increased the contents of main pollutants (petroleum hydrocarbons and heavy metals) in soil. Meanwhile, the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) sequencing by Illumina Miseq platform at each taxonomic level demonstrated that the toxicological effect of oil pollutants obviously influenced the fungal diversity and community structure in soil. Moreover, it was found that the presence of three genera (<i>Cephalotheca</i>, <i>Lecanicillium</i>, and <i>Septoriella</i>) appeared in aged oil sludge-contaminated soil. And oil pollutants promoted the growth of certain genera in <i>Ascomycota</i> (70.83%) and <i>Basidiomycota</i> (10.78%), such as <i>Venturia</i>, <i>Alternaria</i>, and <i>Piloderma</i>. Nevertheless, the growth of <i>Mortierella</i> (9.16%), <i>Emericella</i> (6.02%), and <i>Bjerkandera</i> (0.00%) was intensively limited. This study would aid thorough understanding of microbial diversity in oil-contaminated soil and thus provide new point of view to soil bioremediation.</p>","PeriodicalId":49105,"journal":{"name":"Archaea-An International Microbiological Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2018-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1155/2018/9264259","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36526579","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Treatment of Landfill Leachate Using Activated Sludge Technology: A Review.","authors":"Kai Wang, Lusheng Li, Fengxun Tan, Daoji Wu","doi":"10.1155/2018/1039453","DOIUrl":"10.1155/2018/1039453","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Landfill leachate contains a large amount of organic matter and ammoniacal nitrogen. As such, it has become a complex and difficult issue within the water treatment industry. The activated sludge process has been found to be a good solution with low processing costs and is now therefore the core process for leachate treatment, especially for nitrogen removal. This paper describes the characteristics and treatment of leachate. Treatment of leachate using the activated sludge process includes the removal of organic matter, ammoniacal nitrogen, and total nitrogen (TN). The core method for the removal of organic matter involves anaerobic treatment supplemented with an aerobic process. Ammoniacal nitrogen is commonly removed using a conventional aerobic treatment, and advanced TN removal is achieved using endogenous denitrification or an anaerobic ammonium oxidation (ANAMMOX) process. Since biological processes are the most economical method for TN removal, a key issue is how to tap the full potential of the activated sludge process and improve TN removal from leachate. This complex issue has been identified as the focus of current scholars, as well as an important future direction for leachate research and development.</p>","PeriodicalId":49105,"journal":{"name":"Archaea-An International Microbiological Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2018-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6142762/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36525889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mark James Krzmarzick, David Kyle Taylor, Xiang Fu, Aubrey Lynn McCutchan
{"title":"Diversity and Niche of Archaea in Bioremediation.","authors":"Mark James Krzmarzick, David Kyle Taylor, Xiang Fu, Aubrey Lynn McCutchan","doi":"10.1155/2018/3194108","DOIUrl":"10.1155/2018/3194108","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Bioremediation is the use of microorganisms for the degradation or removal of contaminants. Most bioremediation research has focused on processes performed by the domain <i>Bacteria</i>; however, <i>Archaea</i> are known to play important roles in many situations. In extreme conditions, such as halophilic or acidophilic environments, <i>Archaea</i> are well suited for bioremediation. In other conditions, <i>Archaea</i> collaboratively work alongside <i>Bacteria</i> during biodegradation. In this review, the various roles that <i>Archaea</i> have in bioremediation is covered, including halophilic hydrocarbon degradation, acidophilic hydrocarbon degradation, hydrocarbon degradation in nonextreme environments such as soils and oceans, metal remediation, acid mine drainage, and dehalogenation. Research needs are addressed in these areas. Beyond bioremediation, these processes are important for wastewater treatment (particularly industrial wastewater treatment) and help in the understanding of the natural microbial ecology of several <i>Archaea</i> genera.</p>","PeriodicalId":49105,"journal":{"name":"Archaea-An International Microbiological Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2018-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1155/2018/3194108","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36526274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Soil Microbial Community Structure and Diversity around the Aging Oil Sludge in Yellow River Delta as Determined by High-Throughput Sequencing.","authors":"Shaoping Kuang, Yaqing Su, Huihui Wang, Wenjuan Yu, Qiaolin Lang, Ravichandra Matangi","doi":"10.1155/2018/7861805","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/7861805","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Microorganisms are sensitive indicators of edaphic environmental variation. The Illumina MiSeq sequencing technology was used to analyze soil bacterial community diversity around an aging oil sludge in the Yellow River Delta. The alpha diversity index of soil bacterial community results (Ace, Chao, Shannon, and Simpson) determined that bacterial community diversity sampling within the scope of a 20 cm radius from the center of an aging oil sludge spot showed the most abundant diversity. The level of diversity distributed symmetrically with radial direction from the center of the aging oil sludge spot. Over the distance of 100 m from the center, bacterial community diversity tends to be monotonous, with small differences especially in the horizontal direction underground. The alpha-diversity indicators also showed that the bacterial diversity of samples were close under the aging oil sludge. In addition, the aging oil sludge inhibited the growth of bacteria compared with the referenced unpolluted soil sample and also increased the diversities of soil bacteria. At the phylum level, the <i>Proteobacteria</i>, <i>Chloroflexi</i>, and <i>Actinobacteria</i> existing in the aging oil sludge-contaminated wetland soil constituted a larger proportion of the community, while the proportion of <i>Firmicute</i> was relatively less. On the contrary, <i>Firmicute</i> showed the highest content of 63.8% in the referenced soil. Under the genus level and family level, the corresponding strains that resisted the aging oil sludge were selected. According to the bacterial diversity analysis, the basic structure of the bacterial community which could be used for remediation of aging oil sludge-contaminated soil was also developed.</p>","PeriodicalId":49105,"journal":{"name":"Archaea-An International Microbiological Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2018-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1155/2018/7861805","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36500843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yan Yang, Zhiyu Shao, Jun Du, Qiang He, Hongxiang Chai
{"title":"Enhancement of Organic Matter Removal in an Integrated Biofilm-Membrane Bioreactor Treating High-Salinity Wastewater.","authors":"Yan Yang, Zhiyu Shao, Jun Du, Qiang He, Hongxiang Chai","doi":"10.1155/2018/2148286","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/2148286","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>High salinity can strongly inhibit microbial activity and decrease the sedimentation ability of activated sludge. The combination of biofilm and membrane bioreactor is a practical approach towards effective removal of pollutants and low fouling rate. An integrated biofilm-membrane bioreactor (BMBR) treating mustard tuber wastewater was investigated. An average COD removal efficiency of 94.81% and ammonium removal efficiency of 96.84% were achieved at an organic load of 0.5 kg COD/(m<sup>3</sup>·d). However, the reactor showed a relatively low efficiency in total nitrogen and soluble phosphorus removal due to the lack of anaerobic environment. The increase of influent organic load resulted in a performance degradation because a balance between the degradation ability and pollution has been reached. Images of scanning electron microscopy revealed that halophilic bacteria were the dominant microbe in the system that leads to a loose sludge structure and declined settling properties. It was found that membrane fouling was the consequence of the interaction of microbial activities and NaCl crystallization.</p>","PeriodicalId":49105,"journal":{"name":"Archaea-An International Microbiological Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2018-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1155/2018/2148286","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36515702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comparative Genomic Analysis of Members of the Genera <i>Methanosphaera</i> and <i>Methanobrevibacter</i> Reveals Distinct Clades with Specific Potential Metabolic Functions.","authors":"Anja Poehlein, Dominik Schneider, Melissa Soh, Rolf Daniel, Henning Seedorf","doi":"10.1155/2018/7609847","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/7609847","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><i>Methanobrevibacter</i> and <i>Methanosphaera</i> species represent some of the most prevalent methanogenic archaea in the gastrointestinal tract of animals and humans and play an important role in this environment. The aim of this study was to identify genomic features that are shared or specific for members of each genus with a special emphasis of the analysis on the assimilation of nitrogen and acetate and the utilization of methanol and ethanol for methanogenesis. Here, draft genome sequences of <i>Methanobrevibacter thaueri</i> strain DSM 11995<sup>T</sup>, <i>Methanobrevibacter woesei</i> strain DSM 11979<sup>T</sup>, and <i>Methanosphaera cuniculi</i> strain 4103<sup>T</sup> are reported and compared to those of 16 other <i>Methanobrevibacter</i> and <i>Methanosphaera</i> genomes, including genomes of the 13 currently available types of strains of the two genera. The comparative genome analyses indicate that among other genes, the absence of molybdopterin cofactor biosynthesis is conserved in <i>Methanosphaera</i> species but reveals also that the three species share a core set of more than 300 genes that distinguishes the genus <i>Methanosphaera</i> from the genus <i>Methanobrevibacter</i>. Multilocus sequence analysis shows that the genus <i>Methanobrevibacter</i> can be subdivided into clades, potentially new genera, which may display characteristic specific metabolic features. These features include not only the potential ability of nitrogen fixation and acetate assimilation in a clade comprised of <i>Methanobrevibacter</i> species from the termite gut and <i>Methanobrevibacter arboriphilus</i> strains but also the potential capability to utilize ethanol and methanol in a clade comprising <i>Methanobrevibacter wolinii</i> strain DSM 11976<sup>T</sup>, <i>Mbb.</i> sp. AbM4, and <i>Mbb. boviskoreani</i> strain DSM 25824<sup>T</sup>.</p>","PeriodicalId":49105,"journal":{"name":"Archaea-An International Microbiological Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2018-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1155/2018/7609847","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36487120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Autohydrogenotrophic Denitrification Using the Membrane Biofilm Reactor for Removing Nitrate from High Sulfate Concentration of Water.","authors":"Yanhao Zhang, Haohan Zhang, Zhibin Zhang, Yuchen Wang, Taha Marhaba, Jixiang Li, Cuizhen Sun, Wen Zhang","doi":"10.1155/2018/9719580","DOIUrl":"10.1155/2018/9719580","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study investigated the performance of an autohydrogenotrophic membrane biofilm reactor (MBfR) to remove nitrate from water with high sulfate concentrations. The results of simulated running showed that TN removal could be over than 98.8% with the maximum denitrification rate of 134.6 g N/m<sup>3</sup> d under the conditions of the influent sulfate concentrations of 300 mg SO<sub>4</sub><sup>2-</sup>/l. The distribution ratio of H<sub>2</sub> electron donor for nitrate and sulfate was 70.0 : 26.9 at the high influent loading ratio of sulfate/nitrate of 853.3 g SO<sub>4</sub><sup>2-</sup>/m<sup>3</sup> d : 140.5 g N/m<sup>3</sup> d, which indicated that denitrification bacteria (DB) were normally dominated to complete H<sub>2</sub> electron with sulfate bacteria (SRB). The results of molecular microbiology analysis showed that the dominated DB were <i>Rhodocyclus</i> and <i>Hydrogenophaga</i>, and the dominated SRB was <i>Desulfohalobium</i>, under the high influent sulfate concentrations.</p>","PeriodicalId":49105,"journal":{"name":"Archaea-An International Microbiological Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2018-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1155/2018/9719580","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36453538","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shuo Wang, Jianzheng Li, Guochen Zheng, Guocheng Du, Ji Li
{"title":"Bioaugmentation with Mixed Hydrogen-Producing Acetogen Cultures Enhances Methane Production in Molasses Wastewater Treatment.","authors":"Shuo Wang, Jianzheng Li, Guochen Zheng, Guocheng Du, Ji Li","doi":"10.1155/2018/4634898","DOIUrl":"10.1155/2018/4634898","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Hydrogen-producing acetogens (HPA) have a transitional role in anaerobic wastewater treatment. Thus, bioaugmentation with HPA cultures can enhance the chemical oxygen demand (COD) removal efficiency and CH<sub>4</sub> yield of anaerobic wastewater treatment. Cultures with high degradation capacities for propionic acid and butyric acid were obtained through continuous subculture in enrichment medium and were designated as Z08 and Z12. Bioaugmentation with Z08 and Z12 increased CH<sub>4</sub> production by glucose removal to 1.58. Bioaugmentation with Z08 and Z12 increased the COD removal rate in molasses wastewater from 71.60% to 85.84%. The specific H<sub>2</sub> and CH<sub>4</sub> yields from COD removal increased by factors of 1.54 and 1.63, respectively. Results show that bioaugmentation with HPA-dominated cultures can improve CH<sub>4</sub> production from COD removal. Furthermore, hydrogen-producing acetogenesis was identified as the rate-limiting step in anaerobic wastewater treatment.</p>","PeriodicalId":49105,"journal":{"name":"Archaea-An International Microbiological Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2018-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1155/2018/4634898","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36437657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}