Table 5 Lipid yield (L), lipid content (LC) and final lipid productivity (LP) in mutated and wild YlTun15; RmTun15; TaTun15; DhTun2015 and CtTun15 (n = 9 for each strain ± means with standard error)

10.32 ± 0.21

42.88 ± 0.14^c

0.090^b

11.81 ± 0.08^b

46.41 ± 1.35^b

0.099

13.22 ± 0.11^a

51.74 ± 0.17^a

0.130^a

10.22 ± 14

39.68 ± 0.13

0.099

10.26 ± 0.11

41.24 ± 0.84^c

0.082^c

8.18 ± 0.02

36.83 ± 0.21^C

0.073^E

11.13 ± 0.16^B

35.39 ± 0.11^C

0.113^B

11.82 ± 0.33^A

46.98 ± 0.31^A

0.130^A

10.63 ± 0.14^C

38.08 ± 0.41^B

0.086^C

9.61 ± 0.27^D

38.89 ± 0.24^B

0.080^D

3.67 ± 0.44¹

21.80 ± 1.10^α

0.037⁻

4.86 ± 0.08²

25.98 ± 0.21^β

0.049⁻

5.73 ± 0.46

29.94 ± 0.11

0.059

5.75 ± 0.10

31.47 ± 0.42

0.058

5.84 ± 0.10

32.02 ± 0.27

0.059

2.32 ± 0.09

19.76 ± 0.81

0.018

2.18 ± 0.08

20.14 ± 0.18

0.020

2.07 ± 0.17

20.57 ± 0.33

0.019

1.36 ± 0.19*

12.25 ± 0.19*

0.011*

2.53 ± 0.16

25.63 ± 0.85

0.022

3.21 ± 0.09**

30.77 ± 0.61**

0.027**

2.76 ± 0.09

27.82 ± 0.32

0.024