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ReviewTheScientificWorldJournal2014

Microbial ecology of anaerobic digesters: the key players of anaerobiosis.

Fayyaz Ali Shah, Qaisar Mahmood, Mohammad Maroof Shah, Arshid Pervez, Saeed Ahmad Asad

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Review in TheScientificWorldJournal, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It has been retracted, and should not be counted. Cited by 37 papers.

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37citing papers in PubMed
42.2field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

37 citing papers in PubMed, 341 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Fayyaz Ali ShahDepartment of Environmental Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad 22060, Pakistan.
Qaisar MahmoodDepartment of Environmental Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad 22060, Pakistan.
Mohammad Maroof ShahDepartment of Environmental Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad 22060, Pakistan.
Arshid PervezDepartment of Environmental Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad 22060, Pakistan.
Saeed Ahmad AsadDepartment of Environmental Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad 22060, Pakistan.
COMSATS University Islamabad · PK

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Anaerobic digestion is the method of wastes treatment aimed at a reduction of their hazardous effects on the biosphere. The mutualistic behavior of various anaerobic microorganisms results in the decomposition of complex organic substances into simple, chemically stabilized compounds, mainly methane and CO2. The conversions of complex organic compounds to CH4 and CO2 are possible due to the cooperation of four different groups of microorganisms, that is, fermentative, syntrophic, acetogenic, and methanogenic bacteria. Microbes adopt various pathways to evade from the unfavorable conditions in the anaerobic digester like competition between sulfate reducing bacteria (SRB) and methane forming bacteria for the same substrate. Methanosarcina are able to use both acetoclastic and hydrogenotrophic pathways for methane production. This review highlights the cellulosic microorganisms, structure of cellulose, inoculum to substrate ratio, and source of inoculum and its effect on methanogenesis. The molecular techniques such as DGGE (denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis) utilized for dynamic changes in microbial communities and FISH (fluorescent in situ hybridization) that deal with taxonomy and interaction and distribution of tropic groups used are also discussed.

Indexed as

AnaerobiosisEcologyWaste ManagementFermentationMethaneMethane

Identifiers

PMID24701142
PMCPMC3950365
OpenAlexW2011826478

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