Whole metagenome sequencing and 16S rRNA gene amplicon analyses reveal the complex microbiome responsible for the success of enhanced in-situ reductive dechlorination (ERD) of a tetrachloroethene-contaminated Superfund site

• Rebecca A. Reiss ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rebecca A. Reiss, Peter A. Guerra

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: rebecca.reiss@nmt.edu

  Affiliations Biology Department, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, New Mexico, United States of America, LifeScience Testing and Analysis, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9884-0440

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• Peter A. Guerra ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rebecca A. Reiss, Peter A. Guerra

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Lynker Corporation, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

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• Oleg Makhnin ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  ¶‡ OM and MK also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Mathematics Department, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, New Mexico, United States of America

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• Matthew Kellom

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software

  ¶‡ OM and MK also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8310-7078

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