Table 3.

Comparison of K. brevis culture recovery after handpicking or electronic single-cell sorting

Single-cell isolation approach for CCMP2229	Electronic sorting	Handpicking
No. of single-cell isolation attempts	192	192
Isolations surviving 2 generations (4 cells)	39	43
Isolations surviving 5 generations (32 cells)	6	4
Isolations surviving 10 generations (1024 cells)	6	2
Isolations surviving minimum of 3 months and generating large scale (> 4 1) cultures	4	1
% Successful isolation recovery	~ 2%	~ 0.5%