Temporal and Spatial Coexistence of Archaeal and Bacterial amoA Genes and Gene Transcripts in Lake Lucerne

Table 1

One-way ANOVA on the differences between the means of community characteristics of ammonia-oxidizing archaea and bacteria determined for summer and winter months, respectively. The difference is significant when F _measured < F _critical and F _critical = 4.8443357. Significant differences are shown in bold. Individual data have been presented by Vissers et al. (in press).

Parameter	Water depth	F measured	𝑃
	Surface	5.048039	0.04615
Log archaeal 16S	−42 m	0.118078	0.73761
	Above sediment	0.708741	0.41779
	Surface	7.093356	0.02205
Log archaeal amoA	−42 m	0.061664	0.82351
	Above sediment	0.052174	0.41779
	Surface	0.020078	0.88988
Log bacterial amoA	−42 m	1.228674	0.29131
	Above sediment	0.622908	0.44665
	Surface	2.678394	0.12998
Number of archaeal 16S rRNA DGGE bands	−42 m	0.206905	0.65805
	Above sediment	0.151504	0.70453
	Surface	29.27228	0.00021
Number of archaeal amoA DGGE bands	−42 m	2.873572	0.11813
	Above sediment	2.925275	0.11522