Table 3.

Carotenoid profiles of study strain pairs

Strain	OD450 of carotenoids	P value
CB1483	0.616 ± 0.1
CB185	0.705 ± 0.07	0.19
CB5079	1.102 ± 0.08
CB5080	0.616 ± 0.10	0.003
CB5083	0.994 ± 0.10
CB5082	0.531 ± 0.11	0.006
CB5088	0.922 ± 0.15
CB5089	0.604 ± 0.01	0.06
CB1631	0.638 ± 0.03
CB1634	0.405 ± 0.06	0.02
CB1663	1.12 ± 0.06
CB1664	0.798 ± 0.10	0.01
CB5057	0.564 ± 0.01
CB5059	0.336 ± 0.05	0.01
CB5062	0.143 ± 0.04
CB5063	0.122 ± 0.02	0.5
CB5015	0.606 ± 0.07
CB5016	0.489 ± 0.04	0.07