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Table 3 Characterization of microbial community of AD with LCFA or FOG

From: Insights into biomethane production and microbial community succession during semi-continuous anaerobic digestion of waste cooking oil under different organic loading rates

References

Substrate

AD pattern

Method

Methanogenic archaea community

Bacterial community

Shigematsu et al. (2006)

Oleic and palmitic acids

Semi-continuous, CSTR, 37 °C

DGGE

Dominant genera

 Methanosaeta

 Methanosarcina

 Methanospirillum

Dominant phyla

 Bacteroidetes

 Spirochaetes syntrophomonadaceae

Sousa et al. (2007b)

MixLCFA, Palmitate 32–48%; Myristate 11–15%; oleate 23–26%

Batch, 35 °C

DGGE

Dominant genera

 Methanosaeta

 Methanosarcina

Dominant phyla(80%)

 Clostridiaceae

Baserba et al. (2012)

Oleate

Semi-continuous, CSTR, 55 °C

DGGE

Dominant genera

 Methanosarcina

 Methanococcus

Dominant phyla

 Firmicutes

 Bacteroidetes

 Proteobacteria

 Thermotogae

Yang et al. (2016)

FOG and sewage sludge

Semi-continuous, CSTR, 35 °C

High-throughput pyrosequencing

Dominant genera

 Methanosarcinales (11.7%)

 Methanosaeta (13.2%)

Dominant phyla:

 Actinobacteria (28.4%)

 Firmicutes (22.9%)

 Bacteroidetes (12.5%)

Ziels et al. (2016)

FOG and municipal sludge

Semi-continuous, CSTR, 35 °C

High-throughput pyrosequencing +qPCR

Dominant genera

 Methanosaeta (23 → 45%)

 Methanospirillum (1.3 → 34%)

 Methanosphaera (0 → 7%)

Dominant genera

 Syntrophomonas (1.2 → 9.0%)

 Gelria

Present study

FOG solely

Semi-continuous, CSTR, 35 °C

High-throughput pyrosequencing

Dominant genera

 Methanosaeta (82 → 45 → 82%)

 Methanoculleus (4 → 25 → 2%)

 Methanospirillum (7 → 18 → 8%)

 Methanosarcina (4 → 40%)

Dominant genera

 Syntrophomonas (12 → 35%)

 Anaerovibrio (10 → 40 → 20%)