Table 4. Strains producing high-value omega-3 long-chain PUFA.
| No. | Species | Strain | Specified FA Productivity | Specified FA Yield | Specified FA composition | Specified FA content | TFA content | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CCAP No. | (mgl-d-1) | SD | (mgl-1) | SD | %Area | SD | %DW | SD | %DW | SD | ||
| EPA | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Monodopsis subterranea* | 848/1 | 0.77† | 0.09 | 11.48† | 1.40 | 22.5† | 0.6 | 1.9 | 0.4 | 8.4 | 1.9 |
| 2 | Cyclotella cryptica | 1070/2 | 0.63‡ | 0.04 | 9.50‡ | 0.60 | 16.1 | 0.8 | 3.8† | 0.3 | 23.5† | 3.2 |
| 3 | Eustigmatos vischeri* | 860/7 | 0.53 | 0.11 | 7.91 | 1.59 | 22.2‡ | 1.9 | 2.6 | 0.4 | 11.8 | 1.2 |
| 4 | Pavlova salina | 940/3 | 0.44 | 0.08 | 6.21 | 1.11 | 14.3 | 0.3 | 2.9‡ | 0.6 | 20.0‡ | 4.2 |
| 5 | Nitzschia ovalis | 1052/12 | 0.41 | 0.13 | 3.30 | 1.07 | 15.4 | 0.8 | 3.1‡ | 0.4 | 20.4‡ | 3.2 |
| 6 | Thalassiosira weissflogii | 1085/18 | 0.36 | 0.07 | 5.77 | 1.05 | 13.4 | 0.2 | 1.7 | 0.1 | 12.3 | 1.2 |
| 7 | Pavlova pinguis | 940/2 | 0.33‡ | 0.16 | 7.60 | 3.59 | 15.6 | 0.9 | 3.3‡ | 1.6 | 21.4‡ | 9.9 |
| 8 | Pavlova gyrans | 940/1B | 0.31 | 0.01 | 6.01 | 0.47 | 14.7 | 0.8 | 1.8 | 0.1 | 12.5 | 1.1 |
| 9 | Diacronema lutheri | 931/7 | 0.29 | 0.15 | 3.79 | 1.94 | 16.4 | 1.1 | 2.2 | 0.5 | 13.7 | 3.9 |
| 10 | Thalassiosira weissflogii | 1085/1 | 0.27 | 0.02 | 5.77 | 0.51 | 11.4 | 0.9 | 1.8 | 0.1 | 15.5 | 1.0 |
| 11 | Thalassiosira pseudonana | 1085/12 | 0.25 | 0.14 | 3.86 | 1.51 | 10.4 | 1.5 | 2.2 | 0.8 | 21.4‡ | 6.3 |
| 12 | Nitzschia epithemoides | 1052/18 | 0.19 | 0.03 | 4.27 | 0.72 | 13.9 | 1.8 | 2.6 | 0.3 | 19.2‡ | 3.4 |
| DHA | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Tisochrysis lutea | 927/14 | 0.44† | 0.03 | 6.10‡ | 0.4 | 16.4† | 0.3 | 1.9 | 0.1 | 11.4 | 0.6 |
| 2 | Prymnesium parvum | 946/4 | 0.41‡ | 0.09 | 8.91† | 2.0 | 14.3 | 0.5 | 2.3‡ | 0.3 | 16.1‡ | 2.1 |
| 3 | Isochrysis sp. | 927/12 | 0.38‡ | 0.03 | 7.15‡ | 0.6 | 11.9 | 0.1 | 1.4 | 0.4 | 12.1 | 3.4 |
| 4 | Chrysotila lamellosa | 918/1 | 0.35 | 0.04 | 5.96‡ | 0.7 | 9.1 | 1.6 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 13.7‡ | 1.3 |
| 5 | Prymnesium parvum | 946/6 | 0.29‡ | 0.13 | 5.47‡ | 2.7 | 13.0 | 1.6 | 3.4† | 0.9 | 26.7† | 8.5 |
| 6 | Isochrysis galbana | 949/1 | 0.23 | 0.08 | 3.97 | 1.4 | 10.7 | 0.8 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 11.9 | 1.1 |
| 7 | Pedinella marina | 941/1A | 0.23‡ | 0.13 | 5.05‡ | 3.0 | 18.3‡ | 7.5 | 1.9‡ | 1.2 | 9.8 | 2.2 |
| 8 | Isochrysis galbana | 927/1 | 0.23 | 0.03 | 4.52 | 0.6 | 13.4 | 0.2 | 2.1 | 0.1 | 16.0‡ | 1.1 |
| 9 | Diacronema lutheri | 931/7 | 0.22‡ | 0.14 | 2.89 | 1.8 | 11.9 | 2.1 | 1.7‡ | 0.6 | 13.7‡ | 3.9 |
| 10 | Pedinella sp. | 941/3 | 0.21 | 0.02 | 2.99 | 0.3 | 11.4 | 0.5 | 1.5 | 0.2 | 13.5‡ | 1.7 |
| 11 | Pavlova salina | 940/3 | 0.18 | 0.03 | 2.57 | 0.4 | 5.9 | 0.1 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 20.0‡ | 4.2 |
| 12 | Pleuro. pseudoroscoffensis | 913/2 | 0.18 | 0.03 | 2.89 | 0.5 | 8.3 | 0.2 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 11.2 | 1.2 |
| 13 | Pleurochrysis carterae | 961/4 | 0.17 | 0.01 | 2.80 | 0.2 | 8.6 | 0.6 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 12.9 | 1.3 |
| 14 | Pleurochrysis dentata | 904/1 | 0.15 | 0.02 | 2.57 | 0.4 | 5.9 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 14.4‡ | 3.4 |
| 15 | Pleurochrysis pinguis | 940/2 | 0.13 | 0.06 | 2.92 | 1.5 | 6.0 | 0.6 | 1.3 | 0.7 | 21.4‡ | 9.9 |
All strains were grown on f/2 unless denoted (*) where 3NBBM+V was used.
†Significantly different (P < 0.05) from rest of the column except where denoted (‡). All data are above the 70th percentile for the screen for the first 4 parameters. Full data set in Supplementary Dataset S7 online.