A Single-Granule-Level Approach Reveals Ecological Heterogeneity in an Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket Reactor

• Kyohei Kuroda ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kyohei Kuroda, Masaru K. Nobu

  Affiliations Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, North Mathews Ave, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Environmental systems Engineering, Nagaoka University of Technology, Kami-tomioka, Nagaoka, Niigata, Japan

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• Masaru K. Nobu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kyohei Kuroda, Masaru K. Nobu

  Affiliation Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, North Mathews Ave, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

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• Ran Mei,

  Affiliation Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, North Mathews Ave, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

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• Takashi Narihiro,

  Affiliations Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, North Mathews Ave, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Bioproduction Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Central, Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

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• Benjamin T. W. Bocher,

  Affiliation Petrochemicals Technology, BP America, Naperville, Illinois, United States of America

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• Takashi Yamaguchi,

  Affiliation Department of Environmental systems Engineering, Nagaoka University of Technology, Kami-tomioka, Nagaoka, Niigata, Japan

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• Wen-Tso Liu

  * E-mail: wtliu@illinois.edu

  Affiliation Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, North Mathews Ave, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

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