Table 1 Relative changes of the desaturase indexes in the fat mutant strains.

SCD-16 (16:1/16:0) (fat-5)

0.5 ± 0.1

0.33 ± 0.06

(p = 0.000156)

0.8 ± 0.1

0.4 ± 0.1

0.12 ± 0.03

(p = 0.039839)

SCD-18 (18:1/18:0) (fat-6, fat-7)

0.46 ± 0.07

(p = 0.011178)

0.15 ± 0.05

(p = 8.7E-06)

0.9 ± 0.4

0.55 ± 0.09

(p = 0.063)

1.1 ± 0.2

D5D (20:4(n6)/20:3(n6)) (fat-4)

1. 2 ± 0.1

(p = 0.000076)

0.8 ± 0.1

1.01 ± 0.06

1.2 ± 0.1

(p = 0.00028)

1.1 ± 0.1

(p = 0.0015)

D6D (20:3(n6)/18:2(n6)) (fat-3)

1.1 ± 0.1

0.91 ± 0.08

(p = 0.031)

0.9 ± 0.2

0.9 ± 0.1

0.86 ± 0.08

(p = 0.049)