High-throughput metagenomic microbial community assessments as well as analysis of substrate degradation rates were performed during the experiments to understand the fermentation mechanisms involved.
Assessment of microbial community structure with this approach was quite similar, particularly for abundant organisms, to the assessments made by analyzing PCR amplicons of 16S rDNA sequences.
The T-RFLP technique provides an overall assessment of microbial community composition and diversity, but is not equivalent to any specific level of taxonomic resolution [48].
In order to link observed degradation with the purity of the microbial community during the degradation, an assessment of the microbial population was made through DGGE profiling.
Enhancement of rural domestic sewage treatment performance and assessment of microbial community diversity and structure using tower vermifiltration was investigated by Wang et al. [ 128].
Urich, T. et al. Simultaneous assessment of soil microbial community structure and function through analysis of the meta-transcriptome.
Membrane lipids, essential components of living cells, provide a reliable and quantitative assessment of general microbial community structure [29], [30], [38].
Clone libraries provide a comprehensive assessment of the microbial community of any given sample, but are usually restricted to a limited number of samples (<5) due to both financial cost and laboriousness of the approach.
We coupled luminal brush samples, mucosal biopsies and laser capture microdissection with deep sequencing of the gut microbiota to develop an integrated spatial assessment of the microbial community in controls and UC.
Specific culture-dependent (e.g., microcosms) and culture-independent (nucleic acid-based) tools for assessment of the microbial community are now available for this characterization effort (He et al. 2003a, 2003b; Hendrickson et al. 2002; Löffler et al. 2000; Morse et al. 1998).
Assessment of the groundwater microbial community with qPCR showed up to ∼50-fold increase in the classical dechlorinators' (Geobacter and Dehalococcoides sp).
