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. 2019 Dec 17;9:19306. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-55845-w

Table 8.

Comparison of fatty acid composition (mean ± SE) of adult hilsa (>800 g) from Hooghly and Padma river systems.

Fatty acid	Specimens
Fatty acid	Hooghly hilsa	Padma hilsa
C14	6.00 ± 0.06	6.14 ± 0.10
C16	24.34 ± 0.19	23.88 ± 0.09
C18**	24.43^b ± 0.61	15.33^a ± 0.20
∑SFA**	54.77^b±0.48	45.35^a ± 0.20
C16:1**	7.17^a ± 0.18	11.86^b ± 0.20
C18:1**	13.82^a ± 0.26	20.76^b ± 0.55
C20:1**	1.56^b ± 0.02	1.25^a ± 0.02
C22:1**	0	0.14 ± 0.11
∑MUFA**	22.54^a±0.45	33.86^b ± 0.76
C18:2**	1.94^b ± 0.01	1.79^a ± 0.00
C20:2**	1.06^b ± 0.01	0.87^a ± 0.01
C20:4	2.29 ± 0.03	1.63 ± 0.20
C20:5	12.18 ± 0.005	11.78 ± 0.10
C22:6	5.25 ± 0.01	4.59 ± 0.74
∑PUFA	22.71 ± 0.04	20.66 ± 0.84
n-3	17.42 ± 0.02	16.37 ± 0.64
n-6*	5.28^b ± 0.02	4.29^a ± 0.20
n-3/n-6**	3.30^a ± 0.01	3.82^b ± 0.03

*P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, Means followed by different superscripts in a row differ significantly from each other.