Bacteria associated with anaerobic degradation of
PBDEs
The microbial community composition at class and genus
levels are shown in Figs. 3 and 4, respectively. The major
known bacterial classes were Clostridia and Bacilli
(22w78%) and the major known bacterial genera were
Clostridium, Lysinibacillus, Oscillibacter, Rummeliibacillus,
and Bacillus (15.7e54%). To identify bacteria associated
with anaerobic degradation of PBDEs, proportions of
each class and genus in the samples were used to compute
the Pearson correlation coefficient with PBDE remaining
percentages in degradation experiments.