Table 2.

Statistical processing of magnetosome number per cell at different time points.

	Sampling time points
	Groups	0 h	8 h	12 h	16 h	20 h	24 h	28 h	32 h	36 h	40 h
Percentage of magnetosome number per cell (%)	0–5	5.6	4.8	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
	6–10	44.4	42.9	10.0	0.0	3.4	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
	11–15	27.8	23.8	10.0	8.7	3.4	0.0	0.0	0.0	4.8	0.0
	16–20	16.7	23.8	25.0	26.1	24.1	4.3	10.0	13.0	38.1	12.5
	21–25	5.6	4.8	25.0	26.1	27.6	34.8	20.0	26.1	23.8	20.8
	26–30	0.0	0.0	25.0	21.7	31.0	30.4	40.0	13.0	19.0	16.7
	31–35	0.0	0.0	5.0	13.0	13.8	21.7	20.0	43.5	14.3	37.5
	36–40	0.0	0.0	0.0	4.3	0.0	8.7	10.0	4.3	0.0	12.5
AVE*		11.7	14.3	20.9	23.9	24.5	28.1	28.6	28.1	22.7	28.0
SD**		4.3	8.7	7.0	6.4	5.5	5.3	6.9	6.3	5.3	6.7

^*Average magnetosome number per cell.

^**Standard deviation.