TABLE 3.

Quantification of A. minutum cells in bloom field samples from Arenys harbor (Spain): comparison between standard and real-time PCR counting methods

Sample IDb	Collection date	A. minutum cells/litera
		Standard method	Real-time method
2	April 2003	3,964,000 ± 313,500	3,276,450 ± 527,290
6	February 2002	2,500,000 ± 256,500	2,497,000 ± 74,500
9	February 2002	1,845,000 ± 156,000	2,475,000 ± 336,150
11	February 2002	2,125,000 ± 247,500	1,317,600 ± 153,250
12	February 2002	2,171,000 ± 239,000	2,255,000 ± 180,650
13	February 2002	2,950,000 ± 279,000	2,566,000 ± 353,140
1/1b	February 2002	1,832,000 ± 158,500	1,198,300 ± 99,000
3/0b	February 2002	286,000 ± 31,100	188,800 ± 20,750
4/2a	February 2002	1,894,000 ± 161,200	1,389,000 ± 137,950

^aValues are ± standard deviations.

^bID, identification.