Applicability of propidium monoazide (PMA) for discrimination between living and dead phytoplankton cells
Fig 1
Relationship between the percentage of the amplified DNA yield and genomic DNA yield after PMA treatment.
The line represents the identical ratio, and error bars represent the standard deviations from three independent replicates. (A) Amplified cyanobacterial and plastidial 16S rRNA and (B) amplified 18S rRNA from eukaryotic algae. The results of two cyanobacterial species, Aphanizomenon sp. and Synechocystis sp., are not represented because genomic DNA concentrations of both species were not measured during the experiments.