Linking microbial community structure, interactions and function in anaerobic digesters using new molecular techniques

- Emerging complimentary approaches to study diverse anaerobic digestion communities.
- Metagenomics enables reconstruction of genomes to explore functional redundancy.
- Metatranscriptomics reveals expressed pathways in metabolically versatile lineages.
- Combined meta-omic approaches can be used to explore microbial interactions.
- NanoSIMS to measure substrate uptake and visualize metabolically active cells.