| MAGs | Metagenome-assembled genomes |
| AS | Activated sludge |
| FACS | Fluorescence-activated cell sorting |
| gOTUs | Genome operational taxonomic units |
| rOTUs | 16S rRNA genes operational taxonomic units |
| OD | Optical density |
| RT | Room temperature |
| DAPI | 4′, 6′-diamidino-2-phenylindole |
| FSC | Forward scatter |
| DG | Dominant sub-communities |
| LA | Low abundant sub-communities |
| OG | Outer sub-communities |
| UC | Unsorted community |
| GTDB-tk | Genome taxonomy database tool kits |
| ANI | Average nucleotide identity |
| MuDoGeR | Multi Domain Genome recovery |
| MATAM | Mapping-Assisted Targeted Assembly for Metagenomics |
| BDL | Below the detection limit |
| ASVs | Amplicon sequence variants |