Table 3.

Snow algal fatty acid composition in % of total lipids (TL) and in % of the three major lipid groups: neutral lipids (NL), phospholipids (PL) and glycolipids (GL).

	Chlainomonas sp. LP03				Chlainomonas sp. DL06				Chlamydomonas nivalis DL07
	TL	NL	PL	GL	TL	NL	PL	GL	TL	NL	PL	GL
14:0	3.0	5.0	0.9	3.0	1.5	3.9	0.8	0.8	0.7	0.9	0.6	0.5
16:0	19.1	37.8	13.2	7.9	13.3	37.4	4.7	3.5	19.6	53.0	7.8	6.3
16:1 (9Z)	0.7	0.4	0.9	0.9	0.9	0.8	0.9	0.9	1.2	1.5	1.0	0.9
16:1 (11Z)	0.1	0.0	0.4	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.3	1.3	1.6	1.1	1.0
16:2 (7Z,10Z)	2.0	1.0	2.3	2.3	1.8	0.9	2.1	1.7	1.6	2.0	1.4	1.3
16:3 (4Z, 7Z,10Z)	3.0	2.0	3.4	3.7	3.4	2.0	3.8	4.0	2.1	2.7	1.8	1.6
16:3 (7Z, 10Z, 13Z)	1.4	1.0	2.5	2.2	1.8	1.0	2.7	2.0	0.9	0.4	0.9	1.1
16:4 (4Z, 7Z, 11Z, 13Z)	3.5	2.0	4.2	5.4	4.2	3.0	4.7	4.1	5.6	3.8	6.0	4.7
18:0	4.2	1.0	5.5	6.6	5.7	2.0	10.4	8.5	9.7	2.5	12.1	7.9
18:1 (9Z)	8.1	13.9	3.8	4.9	3.4	6.9	3.8	4.2	9.1	10.1	9.5	9.4
18:1 (11Z)	0.4	1.0	0.7	0.7	0.8	0.6	1.4	1.2	8.3	7.6	11.2	11.8
18:2 (9Z, 12Z)	14.1	12.0	15.1	14.8	11.6	8.9	12.3	14.4	4.3	2.5	4.8	4.7
18:3 (9Z, 12Z, 15Z)	22.2	14.9	26.4	26.7	32.9	18.7	32.2	35.6	26.4	10.1	27.6	32.2
18:4 (6Z, 9Z, 12Z 15Z)	18.2	8.0	20.7	20.7	18.5	13.7	19.9	18.8	9.2	1.3	14.2	16.6
SUFA	26.3	43.8	19.6	17.5	20.5	43.3	15.9	12.8	30.0	56.4	20.5	14.7
MUFA	9.3	15.3	5.8	6.7	5.3	8.5	6.4	6.6	19.9	20.8	22.8	23.1
PUFA	64.4	40.9	74.6	75.8	74.2	48.2	77.7	80.6	50.1	22.8	56.7	62.2

The table shows only fatty acids that have abundances greater than 0.1%. The relative proportion of saturated (SAFA), monounsaturated (MUFA) and polyunsaturated (PUFA) fatty acids is also given.