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Fig. 2. (A) PCR amplification of DNA isolated from copepod embryos using the 16SAR
and 16SBR primers, as reported in Materials and methods. The arrow indicates
the presence of a single PCR product of approximately 430 bp. The presence (+)
or absence (-) of template DNA is shown above. (B) DNA laddering of two DNA
samples (6, 18) isolated from copepod embryos treated with 5 µg
ml-1 of DD for 3 and 1 h, respectively. Sample 31 represents an
untreated control. Semiquantitative analysis of the fragmentation extent is
reported in Table 1. M, markers
(DNA Ladder 100; from top to bottom: 1000, 900, 800, 700, 600, 500, 400, 300,
200 bp).