Table 3.
Global R values for the main factors “Site”, “Growth stage” and “Treatment” as obtained from the analysis of similarity of T-RFLP fingerprints generated from the four studied genes.
| Prokaryotic group | Factor |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Site | Growth stage | Treatment | |
| Total bacteria | 0.791a*** | 0.780***b | −0.038n.s. |
| Total archaea | 0.950*** | 0.708*** | −0.046n.s. |
| Bacterial amoA gene | 0.172** | 0.400*** | −0.009n.s. |
| Archaeal amoA gene | 0.648*** | 0.132** | −0.015n.s. |
a
R indicates the degree of separation between two populations, with a score of 1 indicating complete separation and 0 indicating no separation.
b
Significance levels: n.s.: P > 0.05; *P < 0.05; **P < 0.01; ***P < 0.001.