TABLE 2.
Inoculum cell counts
| Inoculum samplea | Mean no. of cellsb± SEM (% of total cells)
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|---|---|---|---|
| Crenarchaeotes | Bacteria | Eukaryotes | |
| A1 | 1.8 ± 0.5 (1.9) | 87.7 ± 4.2 (97.2) | 0.7 ± 0.3 (0.7) |
| A2 | 1.5 ± 0.5 (1.8) | 78.3 ± 5.2 (97.7) | 0.3 ± 0.3 (0.4) |
| B1 | 1.2 ± 0.3 (1.2) | 94.0 ± 5.5 (97.9) | 0.8 ± 0.5 (0.9) |
| B2 | 0.8 ± 0.2 (1.7) | 48.7 ± 5.4 (98.3) | < 0.2 (< 0.1) |
| C1 | 2.0 ± 0.5 (3.0) | 68.0 ± 4.0 (95.8) | 1.0 ± 0.4 (1.4) |
| C2 | 1.7 ± 0.5 (1.4) | 124 ± 8.3 (98.5) | 0.2 ± 0.2 (0.1) |
a
A, B, and C indicate different experiments; 1 and 2 indicate different subsamples.
b
Mean values were calculated from counts of 6 microscopic fields per sample.