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Table 1 Comparison of EPA and DHA fatty acid contents as percentage from total lipids in examples of bacteria, fungi, fish, transgenic plants and microalgae

From: Microalgal biofactories: a promising approach towards sustainable omega-3 fatty acid production

Organism

% EPA and/or DHA production

Reference

Bacteria

Shewanella putrefaciens

40.0 EPA

[21]

Alteromonas putrefaciens

24.0 EPA

[22]

Pneumatophorus japonicus

36.3 EPA

[23]

Photobacterium

4.6 EPA

[24]

Fungi

Thraustochytrium aureum

62.9 EPA + DHA

[1]

Mortierella

20.0 EPA

[25]

Mortierella

13.0 EPA

[26]

Pythium

12.0 EPA

[27]

Pythium irregulare

8.2 EPA

[28]

Fish

Merluccius productus

34.99 EPA + DHA

[29]

Theragra chalcogramma

41.35 EPA + DHA

[29]

Hypomesus pretiosus

33.61 EPA + DHA

[29]

Sebastes pinniger

29.8 EPA + DHA

[29]

Oncorhynchus gorbusha

27.5 EPA + DHA

[29]

Mallotus villosus

17.8 EPA + DHA

[29]

Sardinops sagax

44.08 EPA + DHA

[29]

Clupea harengus pallasi

17.32 EPA + DHA

[29]

Plant (transgenic)

Soybean

20.0 EPA

[30]

Brassica carinata

25.0 EPA

[31]

Nicotiana benthamiana

26.0 EPA

[32]

Microalgae

Nannochloropsis sp.

26.7 EPA + DHA

[33]

Nannochloropsis oceanica

23.4 EPA

[34]

Nannochloropsis salina

~28 EPA

[35]

Pinguiococcus pyrenoidosus

22.03 EPA + DHA

[36]

Thraustochytrium sp.

45.1 EPA + DHA

[37]

Chlorella minutissima

39.9 EPA

[38]

Dunaliella salina

21.4 EPA

[39]

Pavlova viridis

36.0 EPA + DHA

[40]

Pavlova lutheri

27.7 EPA + DHA

[41]

Pavlova lutheri

41.5 EPA + DHA

[42]

Isocrysis galbana

~28.0 EPA + DHA

[43]