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Table 4.

Zooplankton chemistry, chitinase activity, and chiA copies on zooplankton samples^a

Site	TOC (% dry wt)	TN (% dry wt)	GlcN (μmol g dry wt⁻¹)	Chitinase activity at 4°C (nmol MUF^b h⁻¹ g dry wt⁻¹)	Chitinase gene copy no.
Site	TOC (% dry wt)	TN (% dry wt)	GlcN (μmol g dry wt⁻¹)	Chitinase activity at 4°C (nmol MUF^b h⁻¹ g dry wt⁻¹)	(chiA copies mg dry wt⁻¹)	(chiA copies ng DNA⁻¹)
LB	52.1 ± 0.7	8.77 ± 0.09	69. 6 ± 4.5	26.0 ± 4.4	1600 ± 705	1.39 ± 0.61
LZ	42.4 ± 0.7	9.00 ± 0.24	94. 8 ± 7.1	50.4 ± 9.3	5726 ± 578	13.9 ± 1.4

The errors given are standard deviations of triplicate measurements of one sample.

MUF, fluorescent methylumbelliferone released after the hydrolysis of the chitin substrate analog methylumbelliferyl-N,N′-diacetylchitobioside.