Supplementary data for: Implementation of Dunaliella tertiolecta and Desmodesmus communis in a photobioreactor prototype for treatment of wastewater in a recirculating aquaculture system

This folder contains supplementary data for the manuscript "Implementation of Chlorophycean microalgae in a novel photobioreactor for treatment of wastewater in a recirculating aquaculture system". This manuscript is currently under review in Current Research in Biotechnology, and the record will be updated with publication details upon acceptance of the manuscript. This research aims to support the application of microalgae in photobioreactors for aquaculture wastewater treatment by describing a plate-based screening tool to assess algal growth under diverse wastewater conditions, and describes growth of a microalgal species within a photobioreactor prototype. Two microalgal strains were subjected to an array of inorganic nitrogen sources. The plate wells were subjected to fluorescence microscopy and cells were counted at daily intervals over a 5-day monitoring period. Growth was modelled using Poisson regression models and growth rates compared between species and treatment conditions. Additionally, one algal strain was grown in a prototype photobioreactor under varied conditions, and comparisons between conditions were performed. The data presented here represents the raw cell count data, summaries of growth, and associated growth parameters (Poisson model B1 (growth rate) and average cell counts) for these experiments, as well as the R script used for creation of the Poisson models and for data analysis and visualization.