BioDry: An Inexpensive, Low-Power Method to Preserve Aquatic Microbial Biomass at Room Temperature
Fig 5
Comparison of RNA-TRFLP peak areas in frozen versus preserved seawater field samples.
Results are shown for seawater samples that were frozen, plotted against those preserved with BioDry and stored for either 10 or 30 d for the bacterial (A & B), eukaryotic (C & D), or archaeal (E & F) communities. Values represent averages (n = 3 ± SD) of only those peaks present in both controls and BioDried samples; the number of OTUs used for each analysis is indicated at the bottom-right of each graph.