Table 2.

Fatty acid profile (in mg/g dry weight) of the compound feeds (Inve Rot and Inve Artem) and of the microalgae (Aurantiochytrium sp., Isochrysis sp., and Nannochloropsis sp.) used to feed the rotifers and artemia.

Fatty acid (mg/g dry weight)	Inve Rot	Inve Artem	Aurantiochytrium sp.	Isochrysis sp.	Nannochloropsis sp.
16:0	52.8 ± 1.5b	67.2 ± 4.0b	131.5 ± 0.8a	9.1 ± 1.0d	23.4 ± 1.5c
18:0	8.9 ± 0.2b	15.7 ± 1.2a	4.1 ± 0.2c	0.1 ± 0.2d	0.2 ± 0.2d
Σ SFA	67.3 ± 1.0c	107.3 ± 7.0b	225.0 ± 1.5a	21.7 ± 3.1e	33.7 ± 2.3d
16:1 n7	11.8 ± 0.4b	22.0 ± 1.4c	55.7 ± 0.3e	4.1 ± 0.5aa	30.6 ± 2.7d
18:1 n9	31.0 ± 1.1b	86.1 ± 6.1a	0.0 ± 0.0e	7.2 ± 1.0d	10.9 ± 0.7c
18:1 n7	3.3 ± 0.0c	10.8 ± 1.5b	50.1 ± 0.2a	1.1 ± 0.2d	0.2 ± 0.2e
Σ MUFA	48.9 ± 0.5c	130.5 ± 9.5a	107.3 ± 0.6b	18.3 ± 2.6d	42.7 ± 3.0c
18:2 n6	14.9 ± 0.2b	32.6 ± 3.1a	0.3 ± 0.0d	4.0 ± 0.6c	4.9 ± 0.3c
20:4 n6	1.9 ± 0.1c	5.3 ± 0.4b	0.5 ± 0.0c	0.4 ± 0.1c	12.7 ± 0.4a
22:5 n6	0.9 ± 0.8a	2.7 ± 2.4b	35.2 ± 0.0c	2.8 ± 0.3b	0.1 ± 0.2a
Σ n6 PUFA	18.0 ± 0.7b	44.3 ± 6.0a	37.5 ± 0.0a	7.5 ± 0.8c	18.1 ± 0.3b
18:3 n3	2.2 ± 0.2b	6.6 ± 0.5a	0.0 ± 0.0c	6.7 ± 0.9a	0.0 ± 0.1c
18:4 n3	1.6 ± 0.2c	4.3 ± 0.4b	0.2 ± 0.0d	19.1 ± 2.7a	0.0 ± 0.0d
20:5 n3	15.2 ± 0.6c	34.6 ± 3.2b	2.5 ± 0.0d	0.6 ± 0.1e	39.3 ± 1.3a
22:6 n3	39.6 ± 0.7b	92.7 ± 7.6a	89.8 ± 0.2a	18.0 ± 2.2c	0.2 ± 0.4d
Σ n3 PUFA	61.6 ± 1.7c	152.0 ± 13.7a	94.8 ± 0.2b	46.0 ± 5.5d	39.6 ± 1.0e
Σ PUFA	80.9 ± 3.0c	201.3 ± 20.1a	132.4 ± 0.3b	55.3 ± 0.6d	58.4 ± 1.4d
Σ n3/Σ n6	3.52 ± 0.14b	3.44 ± 0.23b	2.53 ± 0.01c	6.17 ± 0.11a	2.19 ± 0.03d
Σ FA	197.1 ± 3.2b	439.1 ± 22.4a	464.7 ± 2.1a	95.3 ± 3.8d	134.8 ± 3.9c

Values are presented as average ± standard deviation. Different lowercase letters within a row correspond to statistical differences (p < 0.05) between the absolute (mg/g dw) FA profiles of used feeds.