Fig. 1

The conductivity increase (delta conductivity) that occurred due to blastospore solute release after media dilution from 154 mM NaCl to 12.32 mM NaCl (hypotonic shock) and after blastospore death and integrity disruption by heat and mechanical stress (death/destruction). The blastospore concentrations are shown on the unscaled x axis. No blastospores were present in the control. The data was normalised to the control and the survival rates after hypotonic shock were accounted for in the calculations. n = 5. According to linear regression, the blastospore concentration had a significant influence on the delta conductivity of hypotonic shock (adj. R² = 0.8928 F_1,18 = 159.2; p = 2.239⁻¹⁰) and death/destruction (adj. R² = 0.9659 F_1,18 = 538 .4; p = 7.306⁻¹⁵). The effect of concentration was modified by death/destruction of the cells (p = 0.00269). All outliers were included in the linear regression and interaction term