TABLE 4.
Community compositions of different Achromatium subpopulations in Jenny Dam sediments (July 1998) determined with different combinations of labelled and unlabelled competitor probesa
| Specificity of probes (probe name) that were:
|
% of cells (clone) that were:
|
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rhodamine labelled | Fluorescein labelled | Unlabelled | Rhodamine labelled | Fluorescein labelled | Unlabelled |
| JD 2 (ARY655b) | JD 1 (AJD655a) | JD 8 (AJD655b) | 56 (JD 2) | 5 (JD 1) | 39 (JD 8) |
| JD 2 (ARY655b) | JD 8 (AJD655b) | JD 1 (AJD655a) | 58 (JD 2) | 37 (JD 8) | 5 (JD 1) |
a
The percentages of cells identified as JD clone 1 or JD clone 8 were approximately the same whether they were enumerated on the basis of hybridization with a specific labelled probe or lack of hybridization with the other two probes used. The sample size was 200.