Expanding the Diversity of Accumulibacter with a Novel Type and Deciphering the Transcriptional and Morphological Features among Co-Occurring Strains

Abstract

In the last 2 decades, “ Ca. Accumulibacter” has garnered significant attention as the core functional but uncultured taxon for enhanced biological phosphorus removal due to its phylogenetic and functional diversity and intragenus niche differentiation. Since 2002, it has been widely known that this genus has two sublineages (type I and II).