Table 4.

Solvents used for Nile red solutions and the microalgae species on which they were applied

Class	Order	Species			Solvent
			Acetone	DMSO	Isopropanol	Ethanol	DMF
Bacillariophyceae	Naviculales	Phaeodactylum tricornutum	[52]
	Bacillariales	Cylindrotheca sp.	[85]
		Nitzschia sp.	[86]
	Naviculales	Amphiprora sp.	[86]
Chlorodendrophyceae	Chlorodendrales	Tetraselmis sp.	[23]
Chlorophyceae	Chlamydomonadales	Dunaliella primolecta	[25]
		Dunaliella salina	[40]				[84]
		Dunaliella tertiolecta		[51]
	Sphaeropleales	Scenedesmus dimorphus	[87]			[82]
		Scenedesmus sp.	[52,53]
		Neochloris oleoabundans	[88]
		Scenedesmus obliquus	[46]			[82]
		Ankistrodesmus pseudobraunii		[39]
Coscinodiscophycea	Thalassiosirales	Skeletonema marinoi	[89]
	Chaetocerotales	Chaetoceros calcitrans	[25]
		Chaetoceros socialis	[89]
Dinophyceae	Dinotrichales	Crypthecodinium cohnii	[17]
		Gymnodinium sp.	[86]
	Gonyaulacales	Alexandrium minutum	[89]
Eustigmatophyceae	Eustigmatales	Nannochloropsis sp.	[23,57,90]
		Nannochloropsis gaditana	[42]	[42]
Prymnesiophyceae	Isochrysidales	Tisochrysis lutea	[49]
Trebouxiophyceae	Chlorellales	Auxenochlorella protothecoides				[82]
		Chlorella pyrenoidosa	[57]
		Chlorella saccharophila			[65]
		Chlorella sorokiniana	[46]
		Chlorella sp.		[24]
		Chlorella vulgaris	[25,57]	[39]		[82]
		Chlorella zofingiensis	[87]	[39]
		Parachlorella kessleri			[50]
		Pseudochlorococcum sp.	[87]
	Trebouxiales	Botryococcus braunii	[18]

DMF, dimethylformamide; DMSO, dimethylsulfoxide.