FIG 3.

Effect of divalent metals on cell length. WT 168 (BJH004) cells were cultured in CH* without or with the following concentrations of divalent cation salts: 0.1 mM MnSO₄, 0.2 mM ZnCl₂, 10.0 mM MgCl₂. (A) Micrographs following the membrane staining and epifluorescence microscopy (scaled identically). (B) Scatterplots showing the distribution of cell lengths quantitated for 300 cells from each condition. The bars represent the means of 300 cells ± the SDs. *, 0.01 < P ≤ 0.05; ns, P ≥ 0.05. For all pairwise comparisons to the control without additional metal (−), a P value of <0.0001 was calculated.