Relic DNA does not obscure the microbial community of paddy soil microbial fuel cells |
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Authors: | Williamson Gustave Zhao-Feng Yuan Raju Sekar Veronica Toppin Jinjing-Yuan Liu Yu-Xiang Ren Jun Zhang Zheng Chen |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Health and Environmental Sciences, Xi''an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, China;2. Department of Environmental Science, University of Liverpool, Brownlow Hill, Liverpool L69 7ZX, United Kingdom;3. Department of Biological Sciences, Xi''an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou 215123, China;4. Chemistry, Environmental & Life Sciences, University of the Bahamas, New Providence, Nassau, Bahamas;5. Jiangsu Provincial Key Lab for Organic Solid Waste Utilization, Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center for Solid Organic Waste Resource Utilization, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China |
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Abstract: | Soil Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) are devices that can generate electricity by using the flooded soil's anode respiring microbial consortium. When the MFC starts to work, the microbial community in the anode vicinity rapidly changes. This shift in the microbial community results in many dead cells that may release their DNA (relic DNA) and obscure culture independent estimates of microbial community composition. Although relic DNA is expected to increase in MFCs, the effect of relic DNA has not been investigated in the soil MFCs system. In this study the effect of the MFCs on the soil microbial community composition within the soil profile and the influence of relic DNA were investigated. Microbial community analysis revealed that the MFCs deployment significantly influenced the community composition within the soil profile. The phylum Proteobacteria (34.4% vs 23.6%) and the class Deltaproteobacteria (16.8% vs 5.9%) significantly increased in the MFCs compared to the control, while the phylum Firmicutes (24.0% vs 28.7%) and the class Sphingobacteria (5.3% vs 7.0%) were more abundant in the control. Furthermore, the archaeal phyla Euryarchaeota (40.7% vs 52.3%) and Bathyarchaeota (10.1% vs 17.3%) were significantly lower in the MFCs, whereas the phylum Woesearchaeota (DHVEG6) (24.4% vs 19.4%) was slightly enhanced. Moreover, the results showed that relic DNA can affect the relative abundance of Geobacter and Candidatus Methanoperedens, however, it has no significant effects on the microbial community structure. These results indicate that MFCs can influence the soil microbial community profile, nevertheless the relic DNA generated has minimum effect on the culture independent estimates of microbial community composition. |
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Keywords: | Relic DNA Microbial fuel cell Paddy soil Propidium monoazide (PMA) |
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