Table 3 Frequency of four selected PUFAs in 17 taxonomic groups of microalgae on which the examined 2071 strains of the SAG culture collection were distributed, and the size of each group (in total number of strains)
no. of strains | DHA | EPA | ARA | GLA | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cyanobacteria | 223 | 1.3 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 12.1 | ||
Plantae | Glaucophyta | 15 | 80.0 | 46.7 | 6.7 | ||
Chlorophyta | Chlorophyceae | 927 | 5.1 | 6.9 | 5.7 | 26.2 | |
Trebouxiophyceae | 253 | 4.3 | 16.6 | 22.9 | 6.3 | ||
Ulvophyceae | 70 | 4.3 | 22.9 | 12.9 | 7.1 | ||
prasinophytes | 21 | 14.3 | 33.3 | 42.9 | 57.1 | ||
Charophyta | 159 | 1.3 | 17.6 | 13.8 | 31.4 | ||
Rhodophyta | 78 | 70.5 | 67.9 | 3.8 | |||
Excavates | Euglenoids | 131 | 42.7 | 44.3 | 51.1 | ||
Chromalveolates | Stramenopiles | Bacillariophyceae | 18 | 22.2 | 44.4 | 11.1 | 11.1 |
Xanthophyceae | 81 | 4.9 | 75.3 | 49.4 | 16.1 | ||
Eustigmatophyceae | 17 | 88.2 | 41.2 | 5.9 | |||
Phaeophyceae | 12 | 58.3 | 91.7 | 16.7 | |||
Chryso-/Synurophyceae | 12 | 16.7 | 33.3 | 8.3 | 16.7 | ||
Haptophyta | 13 | 84.6 | 61.5 | 7.7 | |||
Cryptophyta | Cryptophyta | 27 | 22.2 | 66.7 | 3.7 | 3.7 | |
Alveolates | Dinophyta | 14 | 64.3 | 57.1 | 14.3 | ||
2071 |