Table 6.

Percentages of bacterial taxa detected in pesticide-contaminated and uncontaminated soil samples

Groups	Contaminated soils		Uncontaminated soils
	Cultivable isolates (%)	16S rRNA sequence (%)	Cultivable isolates (%)	16S rRNA sequence (%)
Alphaproteobacteria	–	1.3 ± 0.01	5.1 ± 0.03	–
Firmicutes	30.8 ± 0.21	47.2 ± 0.21	1.2 ± 0.01	10.2 ± 0.54
Gammaproteobacteria	3.9 ± 0.11	32.8 ± 0.15	–	12.0–15 ± 0.74
Betaproteobacteria	–	1.0–1.4 ± 0.06	–	28.5 ± 0.91
Bacteroidetes	0.5–0.7 ± 0.03	1.0–1.2 ± 0.03	7.0 ± 0.61	12.0–17 ± 0.81
Actinobacteria	50.3 ± 0.83	47.3 ± 0.96	12.8 ± 0.16	14.2 ± 0.72

The taxonomic affiliation of bacteria was determined by BLAST and by neighbor-joining analysis