Table 1.

Productivity data of P. tricornutum cells exposed to different Cu concentrations (extracted from Santiago-Díaz et al.²⁵).

	Control	Cu(II) 0.31 μM	Cu(II) 0.79 μM	Cu(II) 1.57 μM
Total sum of the identified intracellular amino acidsa
After 12 days	10.11 ± 0.62	23.71 ± 0.89	121.40 ± 3.13	209.40 ± 9.45
After 18 days	7.83 ± 0.24	16.6 ± 0.3	171.8 ± 5.7	145.0 ± 6.1
Total sum of identified intracellular phenolics described in Section “Cell growth and productivity under Cu pressure”b
After 18 days	63.9 ± 15.5	148.4 ± 38.7	357.2 ± 23.4	723.2 ± 55.0
Intracellular MDA contentsb
After 18 days	4.5 ± 0.4	10.25 ± 0.07	23.7 ± 0.1	65.8 ± 0

^aResults expressed as fmol of amino acid cell⁻¹.

^bResults expressed as amol cell⁻¹.

All results are expressed as means ± standard deviations of three measurements.