. 2018 Jan 29;6:e4239. doi: 10.7717/peerj.4239

Table 3. Fatty acid and fatty alcohol composition (% fatty acids) of distal intracolonial locations in two size classes of Acropora millepora colonies.

L-centre: large colony centre, L-33: 33.3% of the longitudinal radius length, L-66: 66.6% of the longitudinal radius length, L-edge: large colony edge, S-centre: small colony centre, S-50: 50% of the longitudinal radius length, S-edge: small colony edge (S-edge). Values are presented as means ± SEM. For each colony size, values in the same row size that do not share the same superscripts are significantly different (P < 0.05).

	Small			Large
Fatty acids (% fatty acids)	Centre	S-50	Edge	Centre	L-33	L-66	Edge
14:0	4.8 ± 0.16^a	4.83 ± 0.22^a	4.05 ± 0.29^b	4.66 ± 0.29^a	4.49 ± 0.31^a	4.67 ± 0.26^a	3.83 ± 0.21^b
16:0	42.6 ± 1.68^a	42.3 ± 1.74^a	37.5 ± 2.69^b	41.4 ± 1.68^a	40.4 ± 1.46^ab	43.2 ± 0.85^a	36.8 ± 2.2^b
18:0	7.43 ± 0.85^b	7.45 ± 0.63^b	10 ± 1.05^a	7.27 ± 0.92^ab	7.66 ± 0.77^ab	6.23 ± 0.56^b	8.92 ± 0.8^a
∑SFA	56.6 ± 1.39^a	56.3 ± 1.52^a	53.8 ± 1.79^a	55.2 ± 1.17^a	54.6 ± 1.13^ab	55.6 ± 0.79^a	51.6 ± 1.74^b
16:0-OH	13 ± 0.76^a	13.1 ± 0.88^a	10.4 ± 1.13^b	12 ± 1.12^ab	11.8 ± 1.11^ab	13.8 ± 0.5^a	11.1 ± 1.18^b
18:1n-9	3.59 ± 0.62^a	3.67 ± 0.47^a	3.17 ± 0.51^a	4.27 ± 0.36^a	4.09 ± 0.35^a	4.41 ± 0.27^a	3.7 ± 0.41^a
20:1n-11	2.77 ± 0.17^a	2.63 ± 0.23^a	2.81 ± 0.23^a	2.93 ± 0.25^a	3.07 ± 0.26^a	2.7 ± 0.18^a	2.99 ± 0.25^a
∑MUFA	9.97 ± 0.95^a	9.92 ± 0.68^a	9.49 ± 0.71^a	10.9 ± 0.35^a	10.8 ± 0.4^a	10.8 ± 0.23^a	10.1 ± 0.4^a
18:3n-6	4.31 ± 0.68^a	4.39 ± 0.61^a	6.59 ± 1.14^b	4.57 ± 0.64^ab	5.18 ± 0.62^a	3.91 ± 0.33^ab	6.47 ± 0.87^b
20:4n-6	3.23 ± 0.24^b	3.17 ± 0.26^b	3.14 ± 0.16^a	3.01 ± 0.2^b	2.99 ± 0.2^ab	3.08 ± 0.13^b	3.23 ± 0.2^a
20:5n-3	4.73 ± 0.44^b	4.72 ± 0.31^b	3.76 ± 0.43^a	4.4 ± 0.32^b	4.32 ± 0.16^ab	4.85 ± 0.2^b	4.01 ± 0.36^a
22:6n-3	1.76 ± 0.55^a	1.88 ± 0.44^a	3.52 ± 0.76^a	2.13 ± 0.59^a	2.37 ± 0.45^a	1.55 ± 0.23^a	3.54 ± 0.7^a
∑PUFA	19 ± 1.67^b	19.2 ± 1.52^b	24.2 ± 2.54^a	20.5 ± 1.84^b	21.2 ± 1.72^ab	18.3 ± 0.77^b	25 ± 2.36^a
∑Fatty alcohol	14.4 ± 0.62^a	14.5 ± 0.78^a	12.5 ± 0.91^b	13.4 ± 1.01^a	13.4 ± 0.98^a	15.1 ± 0.49^a	13.2 ± 0.95^a
Total (% lipid)	51.9 ± 7.5^a	45.2 ± 4.7^a	34.7 ± 5.9^b	44.5 ± 6.1^ab	39.1 ± 4.6^b	54.7 ± 6.6^a	38.2 ± 5.2^b
∑n-3 PUFA	8.87 ± 0.86^b	8.92 ± 0.91^b	11.7 ± 1.43^a	9.03 ± 0.74^b	9.81 ± 0.8^ab	8.21 ± 0.42^b	11.7 ± 1.26^a
∑n-6 PUFA	5.39 ± 1.07^b	5.57 ± 0.84^b	8.67 ± 1.46^a	7 ± 1.47^ab	7.04 ± 1.02^ab	5.2 ± 0.48^b	9.21 ± 1.4^a