Fig. 7: Genome-resolved conceptual models of the microbial succession within the pit mud during initiation, maturation, and deep aging.
From: Prokaryotic evolution shapes specialized communities in long term engineered pit mud ecosystem

Ferm Fermentation, Lac lactate, Eth ethanol, Fo formate, Ac acetate, PR propionate, BT butyrate, CA caproate, FA fatty acd, HB hydrolysis bacteria, FCEB fatty acid chain elongation bacteria, SFOB syntrophic fatty acid oxidation bacteria, Bac Bacteroidota, Fir Firmicutes, Chl Chloroflexota, Arm Armatimonadota, Syn Synergistota, Ther Thermoplasmatota, Me-bac Methanobacterium, Me-thrix Methanothrix, Me-sarcina Methanosarcina, Me-culleus Methanoculleus.