Research Article

Community Structure of Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea and Ammonia-Oxidizing Bacteria in Soil Treated with the Insecticide Imidacloprid

Table 3

The two-way ANOVA analysis for the measured parameters.

ParameterSource of variationdfSum of squaresMean squaresVariance explained (%)

Concentration of ions
Treatment21908.79954.4083989.3 < 0.001
Time3158.2052.73754.6 < 0.001
Treatment × time6204.1234.02935.3 < 0.001
Treatment2819.2409.6642275.5 < 0.001
Time3282.294.122522.6 < 0.001
Treatment × time613.928.913161.1 < 0.001
Number of nitrifying bacteriaTreatment215.657.8374124.7 < 0.001
Time32.230.741011.8 < 0.001
Treatment × time61.630.2784.3 = 0.004
AOA-DGGE analysis
Treatment20.210.116461.2 < 0.001
Time30.020.0184.8 = 0.009
Treatment × time60.050.001165.1 = 0.002
Treatment224.5012.257273.5 < 0.001
Time30.660.2221.3 = 0.286
Treatment × time64.830.81144.8 = 0.002
Treatment20.0020.0009247.1 = 0.004
Time30.0010.0004153.0 = 0.052
Treatment × time60.0020.0003202.0 = 0.112
AOB-DGGE analysis
Treatment20.520.2634214.6 < 0.001
Time30.460.1530126.3 < 0.001
Treatment × time60.530.093572.9 < 0.001
Treatment27.723.8628139.0 < 0.001
Time39.423.1434113.0 < 0.001
Treatment × time69.831.633659.0 < 0.001
Treatment20.00120.0005102.5 = 0.102
Time30.00090.000381.4 = 0.267
Treatment × time60.00390.0007363.1 = 0.023

AOA: ammonia-oxidizing archaea; AOB: ammonia-oxidizing bacteria; : Shannon-Wiener index; : richness; : evenness. The effects in bold are significant at < 0.05.