Contents
1 Chlorophylls in Microalgae: Occurrence, Distribution,
and Biosynthesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Jaqueline Carmo da Silva and Ana Teresa Lombardi
2 Carotenoids in Phototrophic Microalgae: Distributions
and Biosynthesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Shinichi Takaichi
3 Phycobiliproteins in Microalgae: Occurrence, Distribution,
and Biosynthesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Vinod K. Kannaujiya, Prashant R. Singh, Deepak Kumar,
and Rajeshwar P. Sinha
4 Carotenoid Synthesis and Accumulation in Microalgae
Under Environmental Stress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Shota Kato and Tomoko Shinomura
5 Carotenoid Overproduction in Microalgae: Biochemical
and Genetic Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Matteo Scarsini, Justine Marchand, and Benoît Schoefs
6 Analytical Protocols in Chlorophyll Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Isabel Viera and María Roca
7 Analytical Protocols in Carotenoid Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Antonio Pérez-Gálvez and Javier Fontecha
8 Analytical Protocols in Phycobiliproteins Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Milan R. Nikolic, Simeon Minic, Mirjana Macvanin,
Dragana Stanic-Vucinic, and Tanja Cirkovic Velickovic
9 Analytical Protocols in Antioxidant Capacity Measurement . . . . . . 203
Tatiele Casagrande do Nascimento, Renan Campos Chisté,
and Leila Queiroz Zepka
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