Table 2.

Content and productivity of fatty acids palmitic, palmitoleic, stearic, oleic, linoleic and α-linolenic of five microalgal strains

Fatty acid	Strains with highest productivity of fatty acids
	Chlorella sp. 800	Chlorella saccharophila 477	Chlorella minutissima 494	Chlorella sp. 313	Chlorella minutissima 444
Palmitic (C16:0)
Content (% dw)	1.86	1.56	1.18	1.08	1.00
Productivity (mg L−1 day−1)	9.21	3.33	4.67	4.87	3.68
Palmitoleic (C16:1)
Content (% dw)	0.055	0.045	0.037	0.032	0.041
Productivity (mg L−1 day−1)	0.27	0.096	0.15	0.14	0.15
Stearic (C18:0)
Content (% dw)	0.60	0.35	0.036	0.04	0.04
Productivity (mg L−1 day−1)	2.97	0.74	0.14	0.18	0.15
Oleic (C18:1ω9)
Content (% dw)	2.59	1.86	0.18	0.16	0.14
Productivity (mg L−1 day−1)	12.80	3.96	0.71	0.72	0.52
Linoleic (C18:2ω6)
Content (% dw)	1.97	4.04	2.05	1.41	1.95
Productivity (mg L−1 day−1)	9.80	8.61	8.09	6.36	7.17
α-Linolenic (C18:3ω3)
Content (% dw)	0.67	0.19	0.25	0.19	0.23
Productivity (mg L−1 day−1)	3.31	0.40	0.99	0.86	0.85
Sum of fatty acids
Content (% dw)	7.75	8.04	3.73	2.91	3.40
Productivity (mg L−1 day−1)	38.30	17.14	14.78	13.13	12.52