New insights into the evolution of bacterial community during the domestication of phthalate-degrading consortium

Abstract The selective enrichment culture technique is widely used in domestication of pollutant-degrading microorganisms. However, very little information is available regarding the evolution and interaction of microbial communities during the domestication. For the first time, successional variation of bacterial community and metabolism were investigated during the enrichment culture of a phthalate-degrading consortium. Results showed that the content of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) increased significantly (p