Table 3 Comparison of fatty acid pattern in LT and hair (mg/ 100 g tissue) within farm.

From: Relationship between intramuscular fat content in longissimus thoracis and hair fatty acids in finishing crossbred bulls

 

Farm 1

Farm 2

UCKxBEEF (n = 21)

UCKxBEEF (n = 15)

WBBxSBT (n = 8)

LT

Hair

SE

P-Value

LT

Hair

SE

P-Value

LT

Hair

SE

P-Value

EMM

EMM

EMM

EMM

EMM

EMM

Total fatty acids

2925.66

419.92

145.33

< 0.001

4105.99

482.31

217.28

< 0.001

2351.22

444.41

179.31

< 0.001

SFA

1443.00

362.98

74.78

< 0.001

1979.40

367.45

121.33

< 0.001

1130.33

394.62

103.10

0.001

C10:0 (capric)

2.93

28.34

1.84

< 0.001

3.36

26.73

3.25

< 0.001

2.10

32.20

1.73

< 0.001

C12:0 (lauric)

3.07

17.35

1.11

< 0.001

3.12

17.36

2.11

< 0.001

2.32

20.84

0.94

< 0.001

C14:0 (myristic)

124.26

172.76

14.15

0.024

144.77

172.70

23.12

0.366

83.33

204.19

15.84

0.001

C16:0 (palmitic)

793.66

68.25

41.85

< 0.001

1100.06

75.15

66.04

< 0.001

625.29

63.04

61.30

< 0.001

C18:0 (stearic)

511.50

41.62

25.09

< 0.001

720.32

43.98

42.01

< 0.001

411.86

37.94

30.53

< 0.001

OBCFA

65.80

8.61

2.85

< 0.001

74.85

20.77

5.10

< 0.001

45.29

17.11

3.40

0.001

C15:0 (pentadecanoic)

11.50

2.27

0.54

< 0.001

11.82

9.40

1.56

0.217

7.15

4.59

0.67

0.030

C17:0 (heptadecanoic)

26.51

1.35

1.39

< 0.001

35.29

1.71

2.20

< 0.001

20.25

1.72

1.45

< 0.001

C14:0iso

3.63

2.81

0.27

0.046

3.05

5.83

0.85

0.029

2.07

7.36

0.73

0.001

C15:0a.i.

6.27

1.07

0.27

< 0.001

6.64

0.95

0.44

< 0.001

4.31

1.21

0.32

< 0.001

MUFA

1245.72

34.74

70.99

< 0.001

1830.86

69.06

89.05

< 0.001

982.10

24.26

71.53

< 0.001

c9-C18:1 (oleic)

1092.68

21.81

62.92

< 0.001

1644.55

50.30

81.83

< 0.001

860.06

16.23

65.71

< 0.001

c11-C18:1

38.51

9.67

2.11

< 0.001

67.79

14.15

3.07

< 0.001

41.86

5.79

2.80

< 0.001

PUFA

171.14

13.59

3.45

< 0.001

220.87

25.02

7.82

< 0.001

193.49

8.42

4.71

< 0.001

C18:2n-6 (linoleic)

105.02

13.02

2.92

< 0.001

141.85

22.86

6.53

< 0.001

125.59

7.91

4.02

< 0.001

C18:3n-3 (ALA)

8.15

0.74

0.34

< 0.001

13.80

2.16

1.00

< 0.001

8.23

0.51

0.30

< 0.001

  1. See legend in Table 2.
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