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Table 1
Lipid content and the main omega-3 PUFA of interest of microalgae authorized for human nutrition.
| Microalga species | Lipid content∗ | PUFA of interest |
| (% dry weight biomass) | ||
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| Dunaliella sp. | 10–70 | ALA + EPA (Sheffer et al., 1986) |
| (Chen et al., 2011) (Bhosale et al., 2010) | ||
| Chlorella sp. | 5–58 | |
| ALA + EPA (Petkov and Garcia, 2007) | ||
| Odontella aurita | 8–10 | (Buono et al., 2014) |
| Crypthecodinium cohnii | 20–51 | |
| Isochrysis sp. | 7–40 | EPA (Guihéneuf et al., 2010) |
| DHA (De Swaaf et al., 1999) | ||
| EPA + DHA (Lin et al., 2007) | ||
∗
Results are from Mata et al. (2010). ALA, alpha-linolenic acid; EPA, eicosapentaenoic acid; DHA, docosahexaenoic acid.
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