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. 2016 Mar 17;11(3):e0151779. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0151779

Table 1. Membrane FA composition (% ±SD) of the copepod P. littoralis prior (day 0) and after 3, 6 and 14 days of food deprivation at different temperatures (4, 15 and 24°C); tr, traces (<1%); other FAs, sum of all FAs <1% in all treatments.

    4°C 15°C 24°C
(%) Day 0 Day 3 Day 6 Day 14 Day 3 Day 6 Day 14 Day 3 Day 6 Day 14
14:0 tr tr _ tr _ _ _ _ _ 1.1±1.0
16:0 16.5±0.3 15.0±1.2 14.7±0.3 13.6±1.5 14.5±1.3 15.4±3.1 17.4±0.5 16.1±1.0 16.8±2.9 19.3±0.4
16:1ω7 5.0±0.3 5.0±1.0 4.6±0.5 4.9±0.5 4.8±0.8 4.8±1.4 5.9±0.7 4.6±0.2 4.9±0.6 8.8±1.8
18:0 4.9±0.2 4.3±0.3 4.0±0.2 3.7±0.1 5.9±0.3 6.2±0.3 6.1±0.4 6.8±0.1 7.5±0.4 6.7±0.2
18:1ω7c 4.6±0.2 6.1±0.4 6.7±0.8 7.8±0.2 6.2±0.6 6.9±0.8 7.5±0.4 5.5±0.2 6.4±0.2 9.4±2.1
20:4ω6 1.6±0.1 1.6±0.1 1.7±0.1 1.7±0.05 2.2±0.3 2.3±0.1 2.3±0.1 2.0±0.1 2.3±0.3 2.9±0.4
20:5ω3 27.7±0.2 27.1±1.2 27.5±0.3 27.4±1.1 24.7±1.2 24.4±1.1 22.7±0.5 22.8±0.5 21.6±1.0 22.6±1.2
22:5ω3 2.2±0.2 1.9±0.1 1.6±0.1 1.8±0.2 2.1±0.2 _ _ 2.0±0.4 1.9±0.3 _
22:6ω3 34.7±1.1 36.8±1.2 37.2±1.6 38.4±1.2 38.8±1.1 40.0±4.1 38.1±1.0 39.5±1.3 38.1±3.2 29.2±1.1
other FAs 2.5±0.2 1.9±0.2 2.0±0.2 tr tr _ _ tr tr _
SFA% 22.0±0.5 19.8±1.3 19.0±0.4 17.5±1.6 20.8±1.3 21.5±2.8 23.5±0.8 23.0±0.8 24.5±3.1 27.1±1.3
MUFA% 10.3±0.3 11.7±1.1 12.0±1.4 13.3±0.5 11.5±1.2 11.8±2.0 13.4±1.1 10.7±0.02 11.6±0.6 18.1±2.5
HUFA% 67.4±0.7 68.1±2.3 68.7±1.3 69.3±2.1 67.7±2.5 66.7±4.9 63.1±0.4 66.3±0.8 63.9±3.7 54.8±1.6