Table 1.
Summary of the AEA amoA gene sequences used for the comparison between this and other studies (the AEA amoA gene sequences were derived from the primer set of Francis et al. (2005), and the length of the amoA gene sequences was 635 bp.
| Location | Lake name (sample type) | No. of clones or sequences | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Denmark | Lake Hampen (sediment) | 306 | Herrmann et al. (2009) |
| Lake Kalgård (sediment) | |||
| Lake Grane Langsø (sediment) | |||
| Lake Søby (sediment) | |||
| Lake Almind (sediment) | |||
| Spain | Lake Llebreta (water) | Total 40 DGGE sequences | Auguet et al. (2011) |
| Lake Llong (water) | |||
| Lake Redo’ AT (water) | |||
| Congo | Lake Kivu (water) | 14(DGGE bands) | Llirós et al. (2010) |
| Canada | High Arctic lake A (water) | 22 | Pouliot et al. (2009) |
| High Arctic lake C1 (water) | 28 | ||
| China | Qinghai Lake water (QLW1-0) | 22 | Jiang et al. (2009b) |
| Qinghai Lake sediment (QLS1-30) | 16 | ||
| Lake Taihu (sediment) | 106 | Wu et al. (2010) | |
| Miscellaneous | Antarctic coast (water) | 119 | Kalanetra et al. (2009) |
| Arctic Ocean (water) | |||
| Monterey Bay (water) | 47 | Francis et al. (2005) | |
| The Eastern Tropical North Pacific (water) | 26 | ||
| Black Sea (water) | 70 | ||
| Elkhorn Slough (sediment) | 69 | ||
| San Francisco Bay (sediment) | 50 | ||
| Bahïa del Tbóari, Mexico (sediment) | 64 | ||
| Huntington Beach, CA (sediment) | 24 | ||
| Oak ridge (soil) | 27 | ||
| The deep-sea sediments of the tropical West Pacific continental margin (sediment) | 242 | Dang et al. (2009) |