Research Article

Aerobic Sludge Granulation in a Full-Scale Sequencing Batch Reactor

Table 5

Comparison of nucleotide sequences and abundance of sequenced DGGE bands.

Band SequenceAccession no.Closest relative (accession no.)IdentityRelative abundance of bands (%)
(bp)(%)1#2#3#

4188KF234427Uncultured bacterium clone ASNR-16 (JQ809244)1007.02.34.2
8188KF234428Uncultured Chlorobi bacterium clone ABL17 (JQ906960)971.31.98.4
10183KF234429Uncultured Nitrospira sp. (KC491391)10011.56.7ND
11193KF234430Uncultured Nitrosomonas sp. clone S12 (AY605680)993.53.7ND
12187KF234431Flavobacterium sp. R046 (KC252875)99NDND7.1
13188KF273869Uncultured Bacteroidetes bacterium (FJ750465)1001.46.8ND
14193KF234435Uncultured beta proteobacterium (AB636023)100NDND5.7
16193KF234436Uncultured Aquabacterium sp. (JQ288705)99NDND12.8
18193KF234437Leptothrix sp. (JQ946011)100NDND5.7
23170KF234438Uncultured Alphaproteobacteriabacterium (CU925173)100NDND1.5
25193KF234441Uncultured bacterium (KC541099)98NDND3.6
26193KF234444Thauera sp. enrichment culture clone LDC-8 (KF020718)1008.49.210.6
28196KF234446Uncultured proteobacterium (GQ243004)98NDND2.6

ND: not detected.
The bands are designed as shown in Figure 4.
The abundance was calculated using BandScan (version 5.0) software.