Research Article
Space Flight Effects on Antioxidant Molecules in Dry Tardigrades: The TARDIKISS Experiment
Table 1
Percentage of fatty acid composition in the tardigrades Paramacrobiotus richtersi and Ramazzottius oberhaeuseri.
| | Fatty acid | Paramacrobiotus richtersi | Ramazzottius oberhaeuseri | | TC | F | TC | F |
| | C16:0 | 28.86 (1.56) | 29.41 (3.53) | 29.65 (1.84) | 32.64 (1.15) | | C16:1 | 8.44 (1.98) | 8.91 (0.79) | 6.56 (1.68) | 9.77 (0.23) | | C18:0 | 14.53 (2.68) | 17.86 (4.87) | 16.22 (1.76) | 18.56 (4.55) | | C18:1 | 19.85 (3.43) | 17.13 (4.55) | 21.45 (1.71) | 20.04 (6.21) | | C18:2 n-6 | 9.75 (3.24) | 13.18 (2.99) | 12.11 (6.59) | 12.97 (1.69) | | C18:3 n-3 | 2.61 (2.05) | 2.25 (1.69) | 4.03 (3.48) | 1.50 (0.30) | | C20:3 n-6 | 1.11 (0.89) | 1.03 (0.67) | 0.22 (0.15) | 0.24 (0.32) | | C20:4 n-6 | 9.78 (7.56) | 5.05 (5.20) | 5.87 (1.74) | 2.91 (2.02) | | C20:5 n-3 | 1.17 (0.46) | 1.99 (0.78) | 1.30 (1.55) | 0.57 (0.77) | | C22:5 n-3 | 0.51 (0.51) | 0.14 (0.19) | 0.14 (0.23) | 0.23 (0.33) | | C22:6 n-3 | 4.00 (1.27) | 3.03 (0.36) | 2.45 (0.36) | 0.56 (0.60)* | | PUFA | 28.92 (7.49) | 26.68 (4.45) | 26.12 (3.25) | 18.99 (0.73)* | | TBARS basal (pmoles/g proteins) | 2.81 (1.04) | 2.51 (0.55) | 2.77 (0.56) | 2.60 (1.08) | | TBARS induced (pmoles/g proteins) | 26.06 (3.65) | 28.25 (1.27) | 43.65 (1.61) | 32.91 (2.58) |
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TC = ground temperature control samples; F = flight samples; PUFA = polyunsaturated fatty acids; TBARS = thiobarbituric reactive substances; *; in brackets SD.
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