Table 1 Variations of biotic factors potentially affecting cyanobacteria growth in the microcosms exposed to azoxystrobin for 7 days (AZ) as inferred from fold change in relative abundance of taxonomic transcripts of selected organisms in the control group (Con) or the AZ-treated microcosms (AZ).

Graze

Daphnia

2.60

0.915

0.35

Acanthamoeba

0.0286

0.0512

1.82

Bacterial lysis

Alcaligenes

5.05E− 05

1.49E− 04

2.95

Flavobacterium

0.413

0.205

0.50

Cytophaga

0.00633

0.00190

0.30

Pseudomonas

0.203

0.412

2.03

Bdellovibrio

0.105

0.0105

0.10

Bacillus

0.0105

0.00963

0.92

Viral lysis

Podoviridae

1.55E− 04

1.18E− 05

0.08

Siphoviridae

6.95E− 04

3.56E− 04

0.51

Myoviridae

0.00380

0.00157

0.41

Allelopathy

Chlorophyceae

58.7

32.9

0.56

Cylindrospermopsis

0.00131

0.0351

26.9

Fungal parasitism

Chytridiomycota

0.0695

0.0375

0.54