Feeding Choice and the Fate of Organic Materials Consumed by Sesarma Crabs Perisesarma bidens (De Haan) When Offered Different Diets

Table 5

Mean percentage contribution of individual and FA classes and bacteria markers of the resulting faecal material. Values are means ± SE (𝑛=3). Sample abbreviations as in Table 2.

	Leaf faeces	Algae faeces	Propagule faeces
14∶0	3.9±0.5	1.9±0.1	1.5±0.8
15∶0iso	0.4±0.1	1.3±0.1	1.1±0.6
15∶0ant	0.6±0.2	0.3±0.0	1.3±1.6
15∶0	0.9±0.4	2.0±0.1	1.2±0.5
15∶1	1.1±0.5	0.4±0.1	0.5±0.2
16∶0	27.0±2.5	48.8±6.6	19.4±2.1
16∶1ω9	0.9±0.4	8.6±1.9	0.4±0.1
16∶1ω7	2.1±0.4	4.5±3.0	7.5±1.2
17∶0iso	0.4±0.1	1.4±0.2	0.4±0.0
17∶0ant	—	—	—
17∶0	1.0±0.4	0.6±0.1	1.0±0.0
17∶1	0.6±0.4	0.8±0.2	0.9±0.1
18∶0	6.7±0.8	2.2±0.1	4.7±0.3
18∶1ω9	6.8±0.9	1.8±1.1	6.1±0.3
18∶1ω7	2.3±1.0	11.8±1.3	18.7±0.8
18∶2ω6	7.2±0.1	2.8±0.2	7.3±0.2
18∶3ω6	0.5±0.5	—	0.2±0.1
18∶3ω4	—	—	—
18∶3ω3	2.8±0.1	2.0±0.0	1.9±0.1
18∶4ω3	1.0±0.8	0.2±0.1	—
20∶0	0.7±0.1	0.4±0.0	0.9±0.1
20∶1ω9	0.2±0.2	0.4±0.0	0.4±0.1
20∶1ω7	0.1±0.2	0.3±0.2	—
20∶2	0.4±0.2	—	0.4±0.1
20∶3ω6	—	—	0.7±0.1
20∶4ω6	—	0.2±0.1	—
20∶3ω3	—	—	—
20∶4ω3	—	—	0.7±0.1
20∶5ω3	—	—	—
22∶0	0.4±0.1	0.8±0.1	1.3±0.3
22∶6ω3	—	—	0.4±0.0
24∶0	1.4±0.3	0.3±0.2	2.0±0.5
26∶0	2.0±0.7	—	6.0±1.6
28∶0	2.7±1.3	—	5.2±1.5
30∶0	1.1±0.3	—	0.2±0.2
32∶0	4.3±1.2	0.4±0.1	1.3±0.3
∗ΣMUFA	15.2±0.7	29.0±5.1	34.6±1.3
∗ΣPUFA	14.3±2.8	5.6±0.4	12.5±0.8
∗ΣSAFA	50.9±6.2	60.6±5.7	36.2±1.7
∗ΣBrFA	4.0±1.2	3.3±0.1	3.2±1.1
∗ΣLCFA	10.1±3.0	0.4±0.1	12.6±3.6
Unidentified	5.5±3.2	1.1±0.8	0.9±0.2
Total	100	100	100
Bacteria	3.7±1.1	14.8±1.3	21.5±0.8

∗Includes fatty acids not indicated in this table; -not detected or traces.