Table 1.

Food concentrations in three treatments of the Daphnia growth experiment. ((i) uninfected Asterionella (diatom), (ii) Asterionella infected by chytrid (diatom+chytrid), and (iii) chytrid zoospores (chytrid).)

	diatom	diatom+chytrid	chytrid
carbon (μg ml−1)	1.97±0.14	1.75±0.19	0.13±0.04
nitrogen (μg ml−1)	0.17±0.01	0.16±0.01	0.01±0.00
phosphorus (μg ml−1)	0.46±0.02	0.48±0.02	0.04±0.00
Asterionella (cells ml−1)	39 900±5830	57 320±11 580	1040±14
zoospores (spores ml−1)		18 290±3220	11 200±530
bacterial abundance (107 cells ml−1)	1.423±0.328	1.210±0.050	1.210±0.050