Journal of Computer Science & Systems Biology

Biological Systems Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

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• Research Article   
  Evolutionary Dynamics of Microbial Communities in Bioelectrochemical Systems
  Author(s): Lukasz Szydlowski, Anatoly Sorokin, Olga Vasieva, Susan Boerner, Veyacheslav Fedorovich and Igor Goryanin*
  
  Bio-electrochemical systems can generate electricity by virtue of mature microbial consortia that gradually and spontaneously optimize performance. To evaluate selective enrichment of these electrogenic microbial communities, five, 3-electrode reactors were inoculated with microbes derived from rice wash wastewater and incubated under a range of applied potentials. Reactors were sampled over a 12-week period and DNA extracted from anodic, cathodic, and planktonic bacterial communities was interrogated using a custom-made bioinformatics pipeline that combined 16S and metagenomic samples to monitor temporal changes in community composition. Some genera that constituted a minor proportion of the initial inoculum dominated within weeks following inoculation and correlated with applied potential. For instance, the abundance of Geobacter increased from 423-fold to 766-f.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.37421/0974-7230.2020.13.310

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