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. 2016 Sep 6;72(4):909–916. doi: 10.1007/s00248-016-0843-4

Table 1.

Correlation between physicochemical parameters of water and bacterial counts, intI1 frequency among culturable bacteria, and copy number and abundance of 16S rRNA gene, intI1, sul1, and sul2 genes in water

Culturable heterotrophs Coliforms intI1 frequency 16S copy number intI1 copy intI1 abundance sul1 copy number sul1 abundance sul2 copy number sul2 abundance
Temperature −0.067 0.580 0.439 0.300 −0.192 −0.367 0.158 −0.110 0.156 −0.077
pH −0.009 0.326 0.484 0.323 −0.122 −0.302 0.366 0.063 0.220 0.021
Conductivity 0.019 0.376 0.496 0.380 0.398 0.596 0.140 0.376 0.080 0.428
TDS −0.061 0.330 0.479 0.414 0.357 0.595 0.174 0.415 0.133 0.491
Salinity 0.053 −0.260 0.442 −0.257 0.416 0.511 0.124 0.281 0.128 0.457
RDO −0.078 −0.314 0.173 0.482 0.159 0.499 0.457 0.669 0.136 0.296
BOD −0.226 0.235 −0.025 0.205 0.374 0.479 0.167 −0.034 0.441 0.231

Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient value. Statistically significant correlations (P < 0.05) are given in italics