title: [Bacterial community dynamics in wastewater treatment plants based on T-RFLP profiles].
abstract: Bacterial communities in two full-scale wastewater treatment systems (system A and system B) with functional stability were monitored over 105 days using terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) based on 16S rRNA genes. During the study period, system A and system B were functionally stable. The effluent BOD concentration of two systems was always around 8 mg/L, and at the same time the effluent TN concentrations of two systems were always below 25 mg/L and 23 mg/L respectively. However, the T-RFLP profiles showed that for system A, the relative abundance of T-RF of 115, 118, 123, 471, 482 and 835 bp changed significantly. For system B, the T-RF of 123, 471, 750 and 835 bp changed significantly. The moving window analysis showed the average community change rates (every 15 days) of system A and system B were 21.5% +/- 5.7% and 22.6% +/- 5.0% respectively. Based on the Lorenz curves, it was observed for system A that 20% of the species corresponded with 43% to 50% of the cumulative relative abundance. For system B, 20% of the species corresponded with 47% to 52% of the cumulative relative abundance. In conclusion, the results of this study clearly revealed that, in the full-scale wastewater treatment systems, the functional stability did not correlate to the stable bacterial communities.
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China. wangxiaohui05@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn
authors.forename: Xiao-hui
authors.initials: XH
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Xiang-hua
authors.initials: XH
authors.lastname: Wen
authors.forename: Kun
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ding
authors.forename: Hui
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhou
mesh_terms: D001419:Bacteria / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000254:growth & development; D019149:Bioreactors / Q000382:microbiology*; D012150:Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / Q000235:genetics; D014865:Waste Disposal, Fluid / Q000379:methods*; D014871:Water Microbiology
chemical_list: D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S