| Title | Global diversity and biogeography of bacterial communities in wastewater treatment plants |
| Abstract | Microorganisms in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are essential for water purification to protect public and environmental health. However, the diversity of microorganisms and the factors that control it are poorly understood. Using a systematic global-sampling effort, we analysed the 16S ribosomal RNA gene sequences from ~1,200 activated sludge samples taken from 269 WWTPs in 23 countries on 6 continents. Our analyses revealed that the global activated sludge bacterial communities contain ~1 billion bacterial phylotypes with a Poisson lognormal diversity distribution. Despite this high diversity, activated sludge has a small, global core bacterial community (n = 28 operational taxonomic units) that is strongly linked to activated sludge performance. Meta-analyses with global datasets associate the activated sludge microbiomes most closely to freshwater populations. In contrast to macroorganism diversity, activated sludge bacterial communities show no latitudinal gradient. Furthermore, their spatial turnover is scale-dependent and appears to be largely driven by stochastic processes (dispersal and drift), although deterministic factors (temperature and organic input) are also important. Our findings enhance our mechanistic understanding of the global diversity and biogeography of activated sludge bacterial communities within a theoretical ecology framework and have important implications for microbial ecology and wastewater treatment processes. |
| Source | Nature microbiology 4 (7), pp. 1183–1195 |
| Keywords | Wastewater treatment plantsmicrobiomeactivated sludgebacterial communities |
| Journal | Nature microbiology |
| Editor | Nature Publishing Group; [poi] Springer Nature, [London], Regno Unito |
| Year | 2019 |
| Type | Articolo in rivista |
| DOI | 10.1038/s41564-019-0426-5 |
| Authors | Wu, Linwei; Ning, Daliang; Zhang, Bing; Li, Yong; Zhang, Ping; Shan, Xiaoyu; Zhang, Qiuting; Brown, Mathew; Li, Zhenxin; Van Nostrand, Joy D.; Ling, Fangqiong; Xiao, Naijia; Zhang, Ya; Vierheilig, Julia; Wells, George F.; Yang, Yunfeng; Deng, Ye; Tu, Qichao; Wang, Aijie; Zhang, Tong; He, Zhili; Keller, Jurg; Nielsen, Per H.; Alvarez, Pedro J.J.; Criddle, Craig S.; Wagner, Michael; Tiedje, James M.; He, Qiang; Curtis, Thomas P.; Stahl, David A.; Alvarez-Cohen, Lisa; Rittmann, Bruce E.; Wen, Xianghua; Zhou, Jizhong; Acevedo, Dany; Agullo-Barcelo, Miriam; Andersen, Gary L.; de Araujo, Juliana Calabria; Boehnke, Kevin; Bond, Philip; Bott, Charles B.; Bovio, Patricia; Brewster, Rebecca K.; Bux, Faizal; Cabezas, Angela; Cabrol, Léa; Chen, Si; Etchebehere, Claudia; Ford, Amanda; Frigon, Dominic; Gómez, Janeth Sanabria; Griffin, James S.; Gu, April Z.; Habagil, Moshe; Hale, Lauren; Hardeman, Steven D.; Harmon, Marc; Horn, Harald; Hu, Zhiqiang; Jauffur, Shameem; Johnson, David R.; Keucken, Alexander; Kumari, Sheena; Leal, Cintia Dutra; Lebrun, Laura A.; Lee, Jangho; Lee, Minjoo; Lee, Zarraz M.P.; Li, Mengyan; Li, Xu; Liu, Yu; Luthy, Richard G.; Mendonça-Hagler, Leda C.; de Menezes, Francisca Gleire Rodriguez; Meyers, Arthur J.; Mohebbi, Amin; Oehmen, Adrian; Palmer, Andrew; Parameswaran, Prathap; Park, Joonhong; Patsch, Deborah; Reginatto, Valeria; de los Reyes, Francis L.; Noyola, Adalberto; Rossetti, Simona; Sidhu, Jatinder; Sloan, William T.; Smith, Kylie; de Sousa, Oscarina Viana; Stephens, Kyle; Tian, Renmao; Tooker, Nicholas B.; De los Cobos Vasconcelos, Daniel; Wakelin, Steve; Wang, Bei; Weaver, Joseph E.; West, Stephanie; Wilmes, Paul; Woo, Sung Geun; Wu, Jer Horng |
| Text | 417985 2019 10.1038/s41564 019 0426 5 Scopus 2 s2.0 85065757739 ISI Web of Science WOS WOS 000480348200014 Wastewater treatment plants microbiome activated sludge bacterial communities Global diversity and biogeography of bacterial communities in wastewater treatment plants Wu, Linwei; Ning, Daliang; Zhang, Bing; Li, Yong; Zhang, Ping; Shan, Xiaoyu; Zhang, Qiuting; Brown, Mathew; Li, Zhenxin; Van Nostrand, Joy D.; Ling, Fangqiong; Xiao, Naijia; Zhang, Ya; Vierheilig, Julia; Wells, George F.; Yang, Yunfeng; Deng, Ye; Tu, Qichao; Wang, Aijie; Zhang, Tong; He, Zhili; Keller, Jurg; Nielsen, Per H.; Alvarez, Pedro J.J.; Criddle, Craig S.; Wagner, Michael; Tiedje, James M.; He, Qiang; Curtis, Thomas P.; Stahl, David A.; Alvarez Cohen, Lisa; Rittmann, Bruce E.; Wen, Xianghua; Zhou, Jizhong; Acevedo, Dany; Agullo Barcelo, Miriam; Andersen, Gary L.; de Araujo, Juliana Calabria; Boehnke, Kevin; Bond, Philip; Bott, Charles B.; Bovio, Patricia; Brewster, Rebecca K.; Bux, Faizal; Cabezas, Angela; Cabrol, Léa; Chen, Si; Etchebehere, Claudia; Ford, Amanda; Frigon, Dominic; Gómez, Janeth Sanabria; Griffin, James S.; Gu, April Z.; Habagil, Moshe; Hale, Lauren; Hardeman, Steven D.; Harmon, Marc; Horn, Harald; Hu, Zhiqiang; Jauffur, Shameem; Johnson, David R.; Keucken, Alexander; Kumari, Sheena; Leal, Cintia Dutra; Lebrun, Laura A.; Lee, Jangho; Lee, Minjoo; Lee, Zarraz M.P.; Li, Mengyan; Li, Xu; Liu, Yu; Luthy, Richard G.; Mendonça Hagler, Leda C.; de Menezes, Francisca Gleire Rodriguez; Meyers, Arthur J.; Mohebbi, Amin; Oehmen, Adrian; Palmer, Andrew; Parameswaran, Prathap; Park, Joonhong; Patsch, Deborah; Reginatto, Valeria; de los Reyes, Francis L.; Noyola, Adalberto; Rossetti, Simona; Sidhu, Jatinder; Sloan, William T.; Smith, Kylie; de Sousa, Oscarina Viana; Stephens, Kyle; Tian, Renmao; Tooker, Nicholas B.; De los Cobos Vasconcelos, Daniel; Wakelin, Steve; Wang, Bei; Weaver, Joseph E.; West, Stephanie; Wilmes, Paul; Woo, Sung Geun; Wu, Jer Horng Southwest University; Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management; Nanyang Environment amp; Water Research Institute; School of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Karlsruhe Institute of Technology; Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque, Italy; Aix Marseille Universite; University of Luxembourg; Concordia University; Michigan State University; Shandong University; University of Queensland; University of Oklahoma; Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais; Lunds Universitet; Northeastern University; SCION; University of Nebraska Lincoln; Universitat Wien; CSIRO Land and Water; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Tsinghua University; University of California, Berkeley; Northern Arizona University; Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa; Aalborg Universitet; Hampton Roads Sanitation District; Sun Yat Sen University; Universidade Federal do Ceara; Yonsei University; University of Guelph; The University of Tennessee, Knoxville; University of Washington, Seattle; National Cheng Kung University; Stanford University; Research Center for Eco Environmental Sciences Chinese Academy of Sciences; Washington University in St. Louis; Northeast Normal University; Universidade de Sao Paulo USP; Cornell University; Northwestern University; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; The University of Hong Kong; Newcastle University, United Kingdom; University of Missouri; Rice University; North Carolina State University; Durban University of Technology; Arizona State University; McGill University; Baylor College of Medicine; University of Glasgow; Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; Biological Research Institute aEURoeClemente EstableaEUR; Pontificia Universidad Católica de ValparaÃso; Vatten and Miljö i Väst AB VIVAB ; Universidad del ValleaEUR Sede Meléndez; Norman Water Reclamation Facility; Golden Heart Utilities; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences; Interuniversity Cooperation Centre for Water and Health; Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Control and Remediation Technology; Bureau of Environmental Services Microorganisms in wastewater treatment plants WWTPs are essential for water purification to protect public and environmental health. However, the diversity of microorganisms and the factors that control it are poorly understood. Using a systematic global sampling effort, we analysed the 16S ribosomal RNA gene sequences from 1,200 activated sludge samples taken from 269 WWTPs in 23 countries on 6 continents. Our analyses revealed that the global activated sludge bacterial communities contain 1 billion bacterial phylotypes with a Poisson lognormal diversity distribution. Despite this high diversity, activated sludge has a small, global core bacterial community n = 28 operational taxonomic units that is strongly linked to activated sludge performance. Meta analyses with global datasets associate the activated sludge microbiomes most closely to freshwater populations. In contrast to macroorganism diversity, activated sludge bacterial communities show no latitudinal gradient. Furthermore, their spatial turnover is scale dependent and appears to be largely driven by stochastic processes dispersal and drift , although deterministic factors temperature and organic input are also important. Our findings enhance our mechanistic understanding of the global diversity and biogeography of activated sludge bacterial communities within a theoretical ecology framework and have important implications for microbial ecology and wastewater treatment processes. 4 Published version http //www.scopus.com/record/display.url eid=2 s2.0 85065757739 origin=inward Global diversity and biogeography of bacterial communities in wastewater treatment plants Nature Microbiology, 4, 1183 1195, 2019 Wu et al Nature Microbiology 2019.pdf Articolo in rivista Nature Publishing Group; poi Springer Nature 2058 5276 Nature microbiology Nature microbiology Nature microbiology Nat. microbiol. simona.rossetti ROSSETTI SIMONA |
