The isolated microalgae strains were screened to identify those
which grewmost rapidly and accumulated the highest biomass
and intracellular lipid.Theisolated strains were scaled-up from
colonies grown in the microplates to 5 mLin culture flasks to be
used as stock solutions for further characterization. Motile
strains and flagellate microalgae were cultivated in Walne
medium, where the rest of isolated strains were grown in f/2
medium. All cultures were maintained in a photoincubator at