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. 2019 Dec 12;14(12):e0223294. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0223294

Table 1. Carbon and nitrogen uptake rates ± standard deviation given in nmol C or N h-1 l-1 for cyanobacteria, and fmol C or N h-1 cell-1 for associated bacteria.

10 min 30 min 60 min 6 h 24 h
13C uptake nmol C h-1 l-1 (fmol C h-1 cell -1 for associated bacteria)
Aphanizomenon sp. 0.3 ± 3.52 0.00 ± 0.57 1.06 ± 2.69 0.41 ± 1.35 0.00 ± 0.02
Dolichospermum sp. 0.06 ± 0.76 0.25 ± 0.71 0.05 ± 0.2 0.07 ± 0.13 0.27 ± 0.18
Nodularia sp. 5.88 ± 20.28 0.00 ± 0.95 0.4 ± 1.5 0.19 ± 0.4 0.00 ± 0.03
Pseudanabaena sp. 2.48 ± 1.5 1.98 ± 0.89 2.55 ± 0.91 1.13 ± 0.72 1.87 ± 1.08
Alphaproteo* 0.59 ± 0.9 0.00 ± 0.04 0.00 ± 0.07 0.13 ± 0.23 0.2 ± 0.32
Cytophaga/Bacteroidetes* 0.12 ± 0.09 0.24 ± 0.45 0.03 ± 0.06 0.19 ± 0.27 0.31 ± 0.34
15N uptake nmol N h-1 l-1 (fmol N h-1 cell -1 for associated bacteria)
Aphanizomenon sp. 1.03 ± 1.6 0.00 ± 1.27 0.28 ± 0.42 0.17 ± 0.4 0.00 ± 0.02
Dolichospermum sp. 0.73 ± 0.45 0.17 ± 0.3 0.05 ± 0.08 0.09 ± 0.17 0.04 ± 0.03
Nodularia sp. 8.07 ± 18.4 0.03 ± 0.87 0.18 ± 0.53 0.19 ± 0.23 0.00 ± 0.02
Pseudanabaena sp. 1.49 ± 0,47 0.8 ± 0.56 0.84 ± 0.17 0.48 ± 0.31 0.17 ± 0.05
Alphaproteo* 0.00 ± 0.08 0.2 ± 0.73 0.31 ± 0.76 1.15 ± 1.29 0.34 ± 0.2
Cytophaga/Bacteroidetes* 0.95 ± 1.01 0.36 ± 0.53 1.2 ± 1.93 0.67 ± 0.92 0.25 ± 0.17

Lines with rates of the associated bacteria are indicated with an asterisk.