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. 2008 May 30;74(14):4516–4529. doi: 10.1128/AEM.02751-07

TABLE 2.

Numbers of probes used in the FGA-I functional groups

Functional group No. of gene categories No. of probes
Carbon degradation 13 422
Carbon fixation 4 131
Contaminant degradation 90 733
Phosphorous metabolism 4 81
Nitrogen cycle 3 319
Sulfur cycle 2 204
Metal resistance 1 83
16S rRNA (positive control) 2
Human (negative control) 20
Arabidopsis thaliana (negative control) 11
Total 127 2,006