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. 2007 Mar 9;73(9):2860–2870. doi: 10.1128/AEM.01752-06

TABLE 1.

Parameters associated with 16S rRNA gene libraries from the contaminated and control sampling sites

Site Library Sampling elevation (m) Mean conductivity (mS/m) (SD)a Fraction of culturable hydrocarbon degradersb Total no. of clones in library No. of different RFLP patterns (OTUs)c
VRP5 (contaminated) 5V 226.93 0.09 (±0.08) 0.12 102 70
5F 225.85 1.74 (±0.54) 0.01 100 68
5C 224.93 51.57 (±7.43) 0.03 100 64
5S 224.31 21.90 (±2.25) 0.24 97 50
VRP9 (control) 9V 225.85 2.78 (±1.22) 0.04 87 65
9S 224.93 9.66 (±3.11) 0.05 103 72
a

Mean conductivity values are based on 16 different measurements between March 1999 and November 2000.

b

Numbers of culturable hydrocarbon degraders (MPN per gram of soil as determined in Bushnell-Haas medium with hexadecane as the sole carbon source) are expressed as fractions of the numbers of total culturable heterotrophs (MPN per gram of soil as determined in 10% TSB medium) calculated as the means of data collected in five different months in the year 2000.

c

OTUs, operational taxonomic units.