Table 2 Prominent taxa identified from different compartments of aquaponics systems
From: The complex microbiome in aquaponics: significance of the bacterial ecosystem
Aquaponics compartment/source/substrate | Predominant taxa (phyla/family/order/genera) | Reference |
|---|---|---|
Sump | Rhizobiaceae, Sphingomonas spp., Devosia spp., Novosphingobium spp., Acidovorax spp., Ralstonia spp., and Deinoccoccus spp. | Eck et al. (2019) |
Fish faeces | Fusobacteria, Bacteroidetes, Firmicutes, Proteobacteria, Enterobacteriales, Cetobacterium spp., Plesiomonas spp. | Schmautz et al. (2017) |
Plant roots | Proteobacteria, Planctomycetes, Acidobacteria, Bacteroidetes, Nitrospirae, Gemmatimonadetes, Methylophilales, Nitrosomonadales, and Pseudomonas spp. | Hu et al. (2015); Schmautz et al. (2017); Wongkiew et al. (2018) |
Biofilter | Bacteroidetes, Verrucomicrobia, Fusobacteria, Planctomycetes, Chloroflexi, Nitrospirae, Proteobacteria, Microbacteriaceae, Rhodobacterales, Rhizobiales, Sphingomonadales, Nitrosomonadales, Burkholderiales, Rhodocyclales | |
Periphyton in fish rearing tanks | Xanthomonadales, Rhizobiales, Dokdonella spp., Thermomonas spp. | Schmautz et al. (2017) |
Fish tank effluent | Nitrospirae, Nitrobacter spp. | Wongkiew et al. (2018) |