Fig. 1.

(A) Microbial community composition and dynamics of propionate- and acetate-cultivated granules expressed in terms of 16S rRNA gene-based T-RFLP patterns. The affiliation of major T-RFs is shown in the legend. (B) Dynamics of abundance of Accumulibacter- and Competibacter-like bacteria in the granules assessed by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH). (C) Phosphate removal capacity of the propionate- and acetate-fed sequencing batch reactors. The arrow in the right indicates the day of inducing enhanced release of phosphate from cells.