Table 4.
Fatty acid composition of the cellular lipids produced by C. elegans when cultivated in different initial glycerol concentrations (≈30 and 50 g/L) at a C/N ratio equal to 18.3 in shake flask experiments.
| S0 (g/L) | Time (h) |
g/100 g of Total FA | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C16:0 | C18:0 |
Δ9 C18:1 |
Δ9,12 C18:2 |
Δ6,9,12 C18:3 |
C20:0 | C22:0 |
Δ4,7,10,13,16,19 C22:6 |
SFA | UFA | MUFA | PUFA | ||
| 30 | 108 | 17.5 a ± 0.6 |
8.4 a ± 0.4 |
40.0 a ± 0.6 |
15.9 a ± 0.4 |
12.8 a ± 0.3 |
1.1 a ± 0.1 |
0.7 a ± 0.1 |
3.0 a ± 0.6 |
28.3 a ± 1.2 |
71.7 a ± 1.3 |
40.0 a ± 0.6 |
31.6 a ± 0.6 |
| 50 | 192 | 17.1 a ± 0.1 |
7.8 a ± 0.5 |
41.9 a ± 1.2 |
17.1 a ± 0.9 |
10.4 b ± 0.5 |
1.6 a ± 0.6 |
0.7 a ± 0.0 |
3.0 a ± 0.2 |
27.2 a ± 1.1 |
72.4 a ± 0.1 |
41.9 a ± 1.2 |
30.5 a ± 1.3 |
a,b: The superscript letters indicate statistically significant differences between the results.