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Table 4

Overview of the main fatty acid profiles of several phytoplankton species.

Classes	Fatty acids
	14:0	16:0	16:1n-7	18:1n-9	18:2n-6	18:3n-3	18:4n-3
Cyanophyceae	3.04 ± 2.69	29.14 ± 9.70	13.33 ± 10.52	7.05 ± 3.21	10.17 ± 8.66	14.17 ± 6.95	1.13 ± 1.27
Chlorophyceae	0.75 ± 0.50	19.71 ± 3.76	1.52 ± 1.12	4.56 ± 2.94	6.16 ± 2.76	30.78 ± 8.46	1.05 ± 0.76
Chlorodendrophyceae	1.00 ± 0.85	23.01 ± 4.58	2.01 ± 1.55	10.69 ± 4.26	6.49 ± 3.32	15.31 ± 4.10	7.04 ± 3.38
Pyramimonadophyceae	1.43 ± 1.20	17.17 ± 3.81	2.92 ± 1.90	1.68 ± 1.55	2.63 ± 1.32	9.11 ± 4.57	15.67 ± 9.43
Mamiellophiceae	11.87 ± 4.66	19.80 ± 4.29	1.40 ± 0.62	1.35 ± 0.88	1.79 ± 0.51	9.11 ± 5.50	15.94 ± 5.70
Trebouxiophyceae	0.95 ± 0.64	23.50 ± 6.41	3.10 ± 2.06	4.67 ± 2.66	14.47 ± 4.17	22.48 ± 5.78	1.03 ± 1.15
Porphyridophyceae	0.80 ± 0.44	33.24 ± 6.56	2.16 ± 1.03	1.11 ± 0.88	9.36 ± 4.98
Cryptophyceae	6.36 ± 2.71	16.68 ± 5.76	2.01 ± 1.03	3.18 ± 2.12	4.07 ± 2.93	17.86 ± 5.83	18.84 ± 6.21
Bacillariophyta	11.09 ± 4.57	18.74 ± 6.68	25.21 ± 7.35	1.31 ± 1.06	1.16 ± 0.83	0.53 ± 0.46	1.33 ± 1.07
Coccolithophyceae	17.58 ± 6.31	16.42 ± 6.94	3.17 ± 1.82	13.39 ± 5.32	4.23 ± 2.27	4.70 ± 2.09	9.59 ± 4.86
Pavlovophyceae	13.71 ± 4.50	17.44 ± 4.46	16.98 ± 5.29	2.13 ± 1.22	2.21 ± 1.60	2.07 ± 1.71	6.19 ± 2.47
Eustigmatophyceae	4.24 ± 1.68	24.14 ± 6.05	24.84 ± 3.82	5.78 ± 2.82	3.09 ± 1.77	0.70 ± 0.60
Raphidophyceae	9.80 ± 5.35	19.46 ± 5.56	7.28 ± 3.36	3.89 ± 1.77	2.95 ± 1.39	4.02 ± 1.79	12.65 ± 5.48
Pelagophyceae	13.70 ± 3.84	20.11 ± 5.68	7.58 ± 3.91	6.60 ± 3.09	2.94 ± 1.20	5.97 ± 2.26	13.44 ± 4.91
Dinophyceae	7.08 ± 4.22	24.64 ± 8.17	2.70 ± 1.71	5.00 ± 3.76	2.34 ± 1	0.90 ± 0.83	6.28 ± 6.32

Data are collected from the study of Cañavate [89].