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TABLE 3.

Plasmid transfer frequencies for matings between P. putida CAP8(pTOL::P_a1/04/03 gfpmut3b) and P. aeruginosa PAO1162N or PAO2002N that was previously exposed to SDS^a

Recipient	Concn (mM) of SDS	D_i/R_i	D_i + R_i (CFU [10³]/mm²)	D_f + R_f (CFU [10³]/mm²)	T/(D_iR_i) (10⁻¹⁰) (events/mm²)⁻¹	C/(D_iR_i) (10⁻¹⁰) (events/mm²)⁻¹
PAO2002N	0	0.08	400 ± 56	5,800 ± 1,400	ND	0.078 ± 0.0062
	1	0.12		5,900 ± 3,326	ND	0.154 ± 0.029
	2	0.09		5,600 ± 1,170	ND	0.140 ± 0.094
	4	0.06		5,900 ± 3,200	ND	0.089 ± 0.063
	7	0.06		6,500 ± 1,990	ND	0.51 ± 0.043
	10	0.05		6,100 ± 3,400	0.104 ± 0.036	0.116 ± 0.029
PAO1162N	0	13	146 ± 2.1	400 ± 150	2,700 ± 640
	1	43		580 ± 113	17,600 ± 12,200
	4	378		2,300 ± 149	92,000 ± 44,000
	7	378		2,800 ± 490	240,000 ± 65,000	0.37 ± 0.051
	10	>1,970		2,800 ± 690	600,000 ± 480,000	0.78 ± 0.163
	0	20	41.9 ± 4.7	347 ± 21	88 ± 42	1.36 ± 0.73
	1	3.5		66.5 ± 6.2	15.8 ± 4.8	0.154 ± 0.044
	4	31		199 ± 9.8	148 ± 69	0.96 ± 0.034
	7	9.3		326 ± 63	86 ± 16.2	0.43 ± 0.157
	10	3.3		383 ± 38	21.0 ± 5.1	0.154 ± 0.018

C, T, D_f, and R_f were enumerated after 48-h mating incubations. The initial total density was 1.50 × 10⁷ CFU/mm²; all values are means±standard deviations; values shown in bold are statistically different from mating results with unexposed recipients. ND, not detected.