Issue 4, 2011
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Energy & Environmental Science

Revealing the electrochemically driven selection in natural community derived microbial biofilms using flow-cytometry†

Falk Harnisch,*a   Christin Koch,b   Sunil A. Patil,a   Thomas Hübschmann,c   Susann Müllerc  and  Uwe Schrödera  

* Corresponding authors

a Institute of Environmental and Sustainable Chemistry, Sustainable Chemistry and Energy Research, TU Braunschweig, Hagenring 30, Braunschweig, Germany
E-mail: f.harnisch@tu-braunschweig.de

b Department of Bioenergy, UFZ-Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Torgauer Strasse 116, Leipzig, Germany

c Department of Environmental Microbiology, UFZ-Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Permoserstrasse 15, Leipzig, Germany

Abstract

In this communication we demonstrate that electrochemically active microbial biofilms and their enrichment at the anode of a microbial bioelectrochemical system (BES) can be quantitatively and easily characterized by flow-cytometry. This analysis revealed that the anodic biofilm of a BES, formed from a highly diverse microbial community and fed with single substrate artificial wastewater, was dominated by only one phylotype.

Graphical abstract: Revealing the electrochemically driven selection in natural community derived microbial biofilms using flow-cytometry

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C0EE00605J
Article type
Communication
Submitted
29 Oct 2010
Accepted
21 Jan 2011
First published
10 Feb 2011

Energy Environ. Sci., 2011,4, 1265-1267

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Revealing the electrochemically driven selection in natural community derived microbial biofilms using flow-cytometry

F. Harnisch, C. Koch, S. A. Patil, T. Hübschmann, S. Müller and U. Schröder, Energy Environ. Sci., 2011, 4, 1265 DOI: 10.1039/C0EE00605J

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