11.08.2015   A Look Back at the U. S. Department of Energy’s Aquatic Species Program: Biodiesel from Algae

DNA Nucleoside Composition of Several Microalgal Strains (Modified from Dunahay, et al, 1992, p.333 and Jarvis et al, 1992)

Algal species

M5dC

5GC

Chlorophyceae

Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

0.16

61.6

Chlorella ellipsoidea

1.48

51.6

Monoraphidium minutum

11.2

70.9

Bacillariophyceae

Cyclotella cryptica

1.95

43.2

Navicula saprophila

0.20

46.2

Nitzschia pusilla

0.78

45.4