Table 2 Genes responsible for the synthesis of DHA found in the draft genomes of A. limacinum, T. aureum, and Parietichytrium sp.

		A. limacinum Type I	T. aureum Type II	Parietichytrium sp. Type III
FAS	Query seq. E-value	Schizochytrium type I FAS 0^a	Schizochytrium type I FAS 2e−178^a	Schizochytrium type I FAS 0^a
PUFA-S	Query seq. E-value	Schizochytrium PUFA-S A/B/C 0^a/0^a/0^a	Schizochytrium PUFA-S A/B/C 0^a/0^a/0^a	Schizochytrium PUFA-S A/B/C 5e−43^b/2e−25^c/not found^d
Δ4DES	Query seq. E-value	T. aureum Δ4DES not found^d	T. aureum Δ4DES 0^a	T. aureum Δ4DES 0^a

Draft genome databases of A. limacinum ATCC MYA-1381 (provided by the U.S. Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute, USA), T. aureum ATCC34304 (this study), and Parietichytrium sp. I65-24A (this study) were searched using amino acid sequences of type I FAS (EF015632) from Schizochytrium sp. ATCC 20888, PUFA-S subunit A (AF378327), subunit B (AF378328), subunit C (AF378329) from Schizochytrium sp. ATCC 20888, and Δ4DES from T. aureum ATCC 34304 (AF391543). The E-value of each gene is described in the table.
^aA corresponding sequence was found in each database.
^b,cA homologous sequence was found in the Parietichytrium database, but the highest homologous sequence was found in ^bMarinagarivorans algicola as “hybrid nonribosomal peptide synthetase/type I polyketide synthase” (E-value = 0.0) or ^cArabidopsis thaliana as “3-oxoacyl carrier protein synthase” (E-value = 1e−116).
^dHomologous sequences (E-value < 10) were not found in each database.

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