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. 2013 Sep 26;8(2):344–358. doi: 10.1038/ismej.2013.163

Figure 6.

Figure 6

Activities related to hydrocarbon degradation for contaminated (C) or non-contaminated (NC) rhizosphere (P) or bulk (NP) soil. (a) Normalized abundance for alkane hydroxylase-related mRNA. The MG-RAST ‘all annotation' functionality with the GenBank database was used to search for the genes of interest. Values are normalized abundances, and error bars are s.d. (N=6). *P<0.05; **P<0.01; ***P<0.001. (b) Heatmap for different gene categories related to the metabolism of aromatic compounds drawn from centered-scaled normalized mRNA abundance data averaged for each treatment (N=6); the darker the cell, the higher the mRNA abundance. The MG-RAST ‘hierarchical classification' functionality was used with the M5NR database and from the level 1 ‘Metabolism of aromatic compounds' all level 3 gene were used.