Table 5.

Enriched medium.

Growth rate	Correlation
−4.70 d−1 to −0.01 d−1	y = −7.21x − 3.57 R² = 0.54 (p < 0.001)
0.00 d−1 to 0.70 d−1	y = 0.62x + 0.027 R² = 0.57 (p < 0.001)
0.71 d−1 to 0.90 d−1	y = 0.36x − 0.028 R² = 0.89 (p < 0.001)
0.91 d−1 to 1.20 d−1	y = 0.12x − 0.004 R² = 0.41 (p < 0.001)
1.21 d−1 to 1.90 d−1	y = 0.29x − 0.26 R² = 0.79 (p < 0.001)

Spearman correlation between P-RNA (y, pg) and growth rate (x, d⁻¹) for each of the growth rate class.