Acknowledgements
The authors wish to thank Cor Ras, Max Zomerdijk and Dirk Geerts at
Delft University of Technology for their assistance in obtaining
accurate stoichiometric data and designing and setting up the reactor
equipment. Furthermore, we acknowledge the contribution of Udo van
Dongen in performing the methane-targeted GC measurement and improving
the FISH analysis, Ben Abbas for assisting in the sequencing and Miguel
Mauricio-Iglesias for assistance in parameter estimation. A. Regueira
would like to thank the support of the Spanish ministry of Education
(FPU14/05457) and of the CRETUS Strategic Partnership for a research
stay grant . A. Regueira belongs to the Galician Competitive Research
Group ED431C2017/029 and to the CRETUS Strategic Partnership (ED431E
2018/01), both programs are co-funded by FEDER (EU). This work was
supported by the Soenghen Institute for Anaerobic Microbiology (SIAM),
SIAM gravitation grant, the Netherlands Organization for Scientific
Research (024.002.002) and Spanish Ministry of Education (FPU14/05457).