ArticleCommunications biology2021
High biodiversity in a benzene-degrading nitrate-reducing culture is sustained by a few primary consumers.
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- Identification of a highly expressed gene cluster likely coding for benzene activation enzymes in a methanogenic enrichment culture.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2026Article
- The influence of benzene on the composition, diversity and performance of the anodic bacterial community in glucose-fed microbial fuel cells.Frontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
- Microbial interactions shape cheese flavour formation.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Combining Flow Cytometry and Metagenomics Improves Recovery of Metagenome-Assembled Genomes in a Cell Culture from Activated Sludge.Microorganisms · 2023Article
- Transient Oxygen Exposure Causes Profound and Lasting Changes to a Benzene-Degrading Methanogenic Community.Environmental science & technology · 2022Article
- Characterization of growth and development of sorghum genotypes with differential susceptibility to Striga hermonthica.Journal of experimental botany · 2021Article
- High biodiversity in a benzene-degrading nitrate-reducing culture is sustained by a few primary consumers.Communications biology · 2021Article
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Abstract
A key question in microbial ecology is what the driving forces behind the persistence of large biodiversity in natural environments are. We studied a microbial community with more than 100 different types of species which evolved in a 15-years old bioreactor with benzene as the main carbon and energy source and nitrate as the electron acceptor. Using genome-centric metagenomics plus metatranscriptomics, we demonstrate that most of the community members likely feed on metabolic left-overs or on necromass while only a few of them, from families Rhodocyclaceae and Peptococcaceae, are candidates to degrade benzene. We verify with an additional succession experiment using metabolomics and metabarcoding that these few community members are the actual drivers of benzene degradation. As such, we hypothesize that high species richness is maintained and the complexity of a natural community is stabilized in a controlled environment by the interdependencies between the few benzene degraders and the rest of the community members, ultimately resulting in a food web with different trophic levels.
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