Prokaryotic viruses impact functional microorganisms in nutrient removal and carbon cycle in wastewater treatment plants

Yiqiang Chen; Yulin Wang; David Paez-Espino; Martin F. Polz; Tong Zhang

doi:10.1038/s41467-021-25678-1

Nature Communications (Sep 2021)

Prokaryotic viruses impact functional microorganisms in nutrient removal and carbon cycle in wastewater treatment plants

Yiqiang Chen,
Yulin Wang,
David Paez-Espino,
Martin F. Polz,
Tong Zhang

Affiliations

Yiqiang Chen: Environmental Microbiome Engineering and Biotechnology Laboratory, Center for Environmental Engineering Research, Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Hong Kong
Yulin Wang: Environmental Microbiome Engineering and Biotechnology Laboratory, Center for Environmental Engineering Research, Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Hong Kong
David Paez-Espino: Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Martin F. Polz: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tong Zhang: Environmental Microbiome Engineering and Biotechnology Laboratory, Center for Environmental Engineering Research, Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Hong Kong

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25678-1
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Activated sludge (AS) systems in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) contain high concentration of viruses. Here, the authors apply a systematic metagenomic pipeline and retrieve a catalogue of around 50,000 prokaryotic viruses from samples of six WWTPs, revealing a large and uncharacterized viral diversity in AS communities.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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