Journal
INTERNATIONAL BIODETERIORATION & BIODEGRADATION
Volume 78, Issue -, Pages 74-81Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibiod.2013.01.002
Keywords
Nitrifying bacterial consortium; Molecular characterization; 16S rRNA gene analysis; Ammonia monooxygenase; Fluorescence in situ hybridization
Funding
- Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India [BT/PR4012/AAQ/03/204/03, SR/SO/AS-15/03]
- Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India [BT/PR4012/AAQ/03/204/03, SR/SO/AS-15/03]
- DST
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The addition of commercial nitrifying bacterial products has resulted in significant improvement of nitrification efficiency in recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS). We developed two nitrifying bacterial consortia (NBC) from marine and brackish water as start up cultures for immobilizing commercialized nitrifying bioreactors for RAS. In the present study, the community compositions of the NBC were analyzed by universal 16S rRNA gene and bacterial amoA gene sequencing and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH). This study demonstrated that both the consortia involved autotrophic nitrifiers, denitrifiers as well as heterotrophs. Abundant taxa of the brackish water heterotrophic bacterial isolates were Paenibacillus and Beijerinckia spp. whereas in the marine consortia they were Flavobacterium, Cytophaga and Gramella species. The bacterial amoA clones were clustered together with high similarity to Nitrosomonas sp. and uncultured beta Proteobacteria. FISH analysis detected ammonia oxidizers belonging to beta subclass of proteobacteria and Nitrosospira sp. in both the consortia, and Nitrosococcus mobilis lineage only in the brackish water consortium and the halophilic Nitrosomonas sp. only in the marine consortium. However, nitrite oxidizers, Nitrobacter sp. and phylum Nitrospira were detected in both the consortia. The metabolites from nitrifiers might have been used by heterotrophs as carbon and energy sources making the consortia a stable biofilm. (c) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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