Microbial Community Compositions at the Genus Level for Sediment and Biomass Samples (IMAGE)

Kumamoto University

Microbial Community Compositions at the Genus Level for Sediment and Biomass Samples

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Genus-level taxonomic classifications of microbe colonies having more than 1% of the total in any sediment sample. Note the abundance of the sulfur-oxidizing bacteria (SOB) Marinicella in the lower layers of SB-C and the sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) Desulfococcus & Desulfosarcina in all layers of SB-AMX. It is thought that SOB works in concert with anammox bacteria to reduce excess nitrogen in sediment samples. [Reprinted from Chemosphere, 196, Van Duc, L., Song, B., Ito, H., Hama, T., Otani, M., & Kawagoshi, Y., High growth potential and nitrogen removal performance of marine anammox bacteria in shrimp-aquaculture sediment, 69-77, 2018, with permission from Elsevier.]

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Dr. Yasunori Kawagoshi

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