In this study, the taxonomic and functional diversity of methanogenic archaea in two parallel 120 l fermenters operated at different temperatures and fed with maize silage was estimated by mcrA metabarcoding analysis using two typical primer pairs (ML and MLA) amplifying part of the functional methyl coenzyme M reductase (mcrA) gene. The alpha diversity indices showed that the ML primer pair detected a higher Operational Taxonomic Unit (OTU) abundance compared to the MLA primer pair and methanogen diversity was significantly lower in the 60 °C fermenters. The beta diversity analysis showed the methanogenic community clustered together at 50 °C and 40° and was statistically different from the 60 °C community. Similar, to alpha diversity, beta diversity was also significantly different between primer pairs. At all temperatures analysed, the primer pairs showed a different abundance of the different methanogenic OTUs, e.g. more OTUs relative to Methanoculleus sp. with the ML primer pair, and more OTUs corresponding to Methanobacterium sp. with the MLA primer pair. Moreover, OTUs corresponding to Methanosphaera sp. and Methanobrevibacter sp. were found only by using ML primer pair, while the MLA primer pair detected sequences corresponding to Methanothrix sp.

Department of Agricultural Food and Environmental Engineering Faculty of AgriSciences Mendel University in Brno 61300 Brno Czech Republic

Department of Biochemistry Faculty of Science Masaryk University 62500 Brno Czech Republic

Department of Experimental Biology Faculty of Science Masaryk University 62500 Brno Czech Republic

Institute of Applied Microbiology Justus Liebig University Giessen 35392 Giessen Germany

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