Table 1.
Comparison of phagocytic capacity between diploids and triploids in each treatment group.
| Active macrophages consuming a given number yeast cells (%) |
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| Treatment | Ploidy | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | + |
| PBS | Diploid | 39.3a ± 2.6 | 24.7a ±2.8 | 16.8 ± 4.1 | 8.7 ± 1.5 | 4.9b ± 1.8 | 2.4b ± 1.2 | 1b ± 0.7 | 2.2b ± 1.2 |
| Triploid | 25.7b ± 4.7 | 19.2b ± 2.7 | 16.0 ± 2.7 | 12.9 ± 3.6 | 10.0a ± 2.0 | 5.4a ± 0.9 | 5.2a ± 1.6 | 5.6a ± 1.9 | |
| ADJ | Diploid | 33.5 ± 6.1 | 20.2 ± 1.4 | 18.0 ± 3.1 | 9.9 ± 2.8 | 9.0 ± 1.6 | 3.1 ± 1.0 | 3.4 ± 1.2 | 3.0 ± 2.0 |
| Triploid | 35.7 ± 7.2 | 19.0 ± 5.9 | 13.6 ± 4.6 | 8.9 ± 1.3 | 6.8 ± 2.4 | 5.5 ± 2.2 | 5.0 ± 2.3 | 4.5 ± 2.3 | |
| VACC | Diploid | 31.2 ± 7.7 | 15.8 ± 1.5 | 14.4 ± 3.0 | 10.2a ± 1.3 | 8.9 ± 3.1 | 5.6a ± 1.8 | 5.8a ± 1.7 | 8.1 ± 3.5 |
| Triploid | 46.0 ± 9.3 | 17.3 ± 5.7 | 10.6 ± 3.6 | 5.7b ± 2.6 | 5.4 ± 1.8 | 2.3b ± 1.6 | 2b ± 1.6 | 10.8 ± 5.3 | |
Significant differences between ploidy are indicated by different lowercase superscripts.