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Ecological Media Reveal Community Structure Shifts in a Municipal Wastewater Treatment Train
Bergmann RC, Wright DA and Ralebitso-Senior TK* | |
School of Science and Engineering, Teesside University, Borough Road, Middlesbrough, Teesside, TS1 3BA, UK | |
Corresponding Author : | Ralebitso-Senior TK School of Science and Engineering Teesside University, Borough Road, Middlesbrough Teesside, TS1 3BA, UK Tel: +44 1642 342525 Fax: +44 1642 342401 E-mail: K.Ralebitso-Senior@tees.ac.uk |
Received April 04, 2015; Accepted April 28, 2015; Published April 30, 2015 | |
Citation: Bergmann RC, Wright DA, Ralebitso-Senior TK (2015) Ecological Media Reveal Community Structure Shifts in a Municipal Wastewater Treatment Train. J Bioremed Biodeg 6:293. doi:10.4172/2155-6199.1000293 | |
Copyright: © 2015 Bergmann RC, et al. This is an open-a ccess article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. | |
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Abstract
Unique ecological/habitat media derived from four phases of a municipal wastewater treatment plant revealed the highest diversity (2.55-2.86) and evenness (0.79-0.87) for the raw sewage (R) medium. Richness was, however, inoculum- and media-dependent hence inocula R and P recorded the highest counts on media A and F, respectively.