Fig. 5From: Schrödinger’s microbes: Tools for distinguishing the living from the dead in microbial ecosystemsSummary of RNA-based techniques. Techniques that use RNA directly have pink pathway lines, and those using complementary DNA (cDNA, after retrotranscription) and double-stranded DNA (DNA, after second-strand synthesis or amplification) are colored blue. MVT is molecular viability testingBack to article page