Table 4.

Pigment composition (mean in µg·mg⁻¹ DW) of nine cyanobacteria isolated from Balaruc’s thermal mud.

Pigments		P. raciborskii PMC 877.14	Laspinema sp. PMC 878.14	M. vaginatus PMC 879.14	L. martensiana PMC 880.14	Nostoc sp. PMC 881.14	Aliinostoc sp. PMC 882.14	L. boryana PMC 883.14	Calothrix sp. PMC 884.14	P. couteii PMC 885.14
Carotenoids	Zeaxanthin	1.72	0.38	0.43	0.11	0.00	0.01	0.22	0.00	0.29
	Myxoxanthophyll-like	0.44	0.28	0.00	0.12	0.03	0.32	0.00	0.21	0.00
	β-Carotene	3.65	1.43	1.06	0.46	0.15	1.29	1.31	0.46	0.78
Chlorophylls	Bacteriochlorophyll a	0.54	0.04	0.12	0.04	0.06	0.08	0.07	0.07	0.02
	Chlorophyll a	35.2	9.8	11.2	4.9	1.5	12.3	17.1	9.7	6.7
	Phaeophytin a	0.00	0.09	0.07	0.02	0.01	0.00	0.09	0.04	0.00
Phycobiliproteins	Phycocyanin	32.5 ± 12.8	18.4 ± 0.2	12.2 ± 2.1	6.1 ± 0.5	2.1 ± 0.1	21.3 ± 4.7	24.9 ± 4.4	9.9 ± 0.4	3.5 ± 0.1
	Allophycocyanin	7.9 ± 3.5	6.6 ± 0.5	5.8 ± 1.1	3.7 ± 0.3	1.5 ± 0.2	15.6 ± 3.5	15.2 ± 3.8	6.7 ± 0.3	2.7 ± 0.2
	Phycoerythrin	33.3 ± 12.1	0.00	0.00	0.00	2.8 ± 0.2	0.00	0.00	9.9 ± 0.3	3.3 ± 0.1