Table 1. Muscle fiber characteristics of eight major muscles from Hanwoo steer

Traits	Muscles1
	LL	PM	SM	ST	GM	TB	RA	SF
Fiber number (%)
Type I	36.8±0.71C	46.4±1.16B	22.2±0.52D	18.8±0.5E	36.0±0.8C	45.4±1.0B	38.5±0.7C	55.9±1.1A
Type II A	18.1±1.1C	19.5±0.6C	29.0±0.7B	29.8±0.4B	27.8±0.3B	28.4±0.9B	8.2±0.7D	33.8±1.1A
Type II B	45.1±0.9C	34.1±0.8D	48.8±0.4B	51.4±0.8A	36.2±0.7D	26.2±1.6E	53.4±0.3A	10.2±0.7F
Fiber area (%)
Type I	34.4±0.5E	37.2±0.7D	20.1±0.5G	16.7±0.6H	25.7±1.0F	42.8±0.9C	48.9±0.6B	55.6±0.7A
Type II A	14.5±0.5F	16.6±0.3E	27.0±0.6C	24.5±0.6D	37.4±0.4A	28.3±0.9C	8.1±0.6G	34.5±0.8B
Type II B	51.1±0.5B	46.1±1.0C	52.9±0.4B	58.7±0.6A	36.9±0.7E	28.9±1.5F	43.6±0.3D	9.9±0.3G
Fiber diameter (µm)
Type I	50.8±1.2C	45.4±0.9E	48.1±0.3D	47.3±0.1D	48.0±0.4D	55.3±0.6B	58.5±0.4A	57.5±0.4A
Type II A	52.1±1.3BCD	44.1±0.8E	50.6±0.8D	54.1±0.1AB	54.3±0.7AB	56.2±1.1A	51.2±0.3CD	53.0±0.4BC
Type II B	61.9±2.0A	54.7±1.4C	58.4±0.3B	59.1±0.3B	58.5±0.3B	62.9±0.3A	51.5±0.2D	52.9±0.3DC