Upcycling Human Excrement: The Gut Microbiome to Soil Microbiome Axis
Genomics
2024-11-08 v1
Abstract
Human excrement composting (HEC) is a sustainable strategy for human excrement (HE) management that recycles nutrients and mitigates health risks while reducing reliance on freshwater, fossil fuels, and fertilizers. We present a comprehensive microbial time series analysis of HEC and show that the initial gut-like microbiome of HEC systems transitions to a microbiome similar to soil and traditional compost in fifteen biological replicates tracked weekly for one year.
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@article{arxiv.2411.04148,
title = {Upcycling Human Excrement: The Gut Microbiome to Soil Microbiome Axis},
author = {Jeff Meilander and Chloe Herman and Andrew Manley and Georgia Augustine and Dawn Birdsell and Evan Bolyen and Kimberly R. Celona and Hayden Coffey and Jill Cocking and Teddy Donoghue and Alexis Draves and Daryn Erickson and Marissa Foley and Liz Gehret and Johannah Hagen and Crystal Hepp and Parker Ingram and David John and Katarina Kadar and Paul Keim and Victoria Lloyd and Christina Osterink and Victoria Queeney and Diego Ramirez and Antonio Romero and Megan C. Ruby and Jason W. Sahl and Sydni Soloway and Nathan E. Stone and Shannon Trottier and Kaleb Van Orden and Alexis Painter and Sam Wallace and Larissa Wilcox and Colin V. Wood and Jaiden Yancey and J. Gregory Caporaso},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.04148},
year = {2024}
}
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Main text: 9 pages, 2 figures; Extended data: 10 figures; Supplemental Text: 32 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables