Table 6. Organic carbon substrate consumption (g/L) over a five-day growth period.

Initial substrate conditions	C. minutissima	C. minutissima & E. coli	E. coli
Glucose
0.5 g/L	0.40 (0.01) b	0.47 (0.02) c	0.56 (0.01) c
2 g/L	1.70 (0.14) a	1.94 (0.02) b	2.09 (0.10) b
10 g/L	1.26 (0.29) a	6.09 (0.51) a	3.69 (0.56) a
Glycerol
0.5 g/L	0.47 (0.00) b	0.50 (0.00) c	0.45 (0.02) b
2 g/L	1.88 (0.06) a	2.05 (0.04) b	1.94 (0.02) a
10 g/L	2.07 (0.07) a	6.26 (0.03) a	2.04 (0.26) a
Acetate
0.5 g/L	0.46 (0.00) c	0.45 (0.00) c	0.46 (0.01) a
2 g/L	1.86 (0.04) a	1.91 (0.00) b	0.67 (0.58)*
10 g/L	0.96 (0.16) b	7.89 (0.20) a	0.00 (0.00) b

Mean values are followed by standard deviations in parenthesis based on three biological replicates (except for 10 g/L glycerol co-culture where n = 2). Within a batch, values connected by the same letter are not significantly different at the 0.05 level.

*Variability was too large to include this treatment in the multiple comparison.