Highlights•Emerging complimentary approaches to study diverse anaerobic digestion
communities.•Metagenomics enables reconstruction of genomes to explore functional …

Anaerobic biological treatment of high-salinity wastewater has attracted much attention due
to its environmental and economic benefits. However, the granulation can be significantly …

Granular sludge exhibits unique features, including rapid settling velocity, high loading rate
and relative insensitivity against inhibitors, thus being a favorable platform for the cultivation …

The extracellular electron transfer capability of some anaerobic ammonium oxidation
(anammox) bacteria was confirmed in recent years. However, the effect of conductive …

Granules in anammox reactors contain besides anammox bacteria other microbial
communities whose identity and relationship with the anammox bacteria are not well …

For the anaerobic biological treatment of saline wastewater, Anaerobic Digestion (AD) is
currently a possibility, even though elevated salt concentrations can be a major obstacle …

This work developed a novel M embrane G ranular S ludge R eactor (MGSR) equipped with
a gas permeable membrane module for efficient methane delivery to cultivate nitrate/nitrite …

Certain types of anaerobic granular sludge, which consists of microbial aggregates, can
reduce selenium oxyanions. To envisage strategies for removing those oxyanions from …

It is commonly accepted that high salt concentrations negatively affect microbial activity in
biological wastewater treatment reactors such as upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) …

The direct application of anammox to wastewater treatment is valuable, but the enrichment
of anammox bacteria (AnAOB) is complicated due to the malignant competition of …