Table 3. Correlation coefficients (r) between muscle fiber characteristics, meat quality traits and fatty acid proportion of Korean native black goat muscles

Measures Fiber number percentage Fiber area percentage

Type I Type IIA Type IIB Type I Type IIA Type IIB
Fat (%) −0.23 0.77*** −0.41 −0.17 0.73*** −0.46*
L* −0.25 0.56** −0.20 −0.37 0.67** −0.17
a* 0.38 −0.01 −0.45* 0.32 0.13 −0.47*
b* −0.68** 0.38 0.49* −0.70*** 0.41 0.42
WBSF1) −0.38 −0.25 0.70*** −0.35 −0.40 0.74***
C14:0 0.54* −0.48* −0.29 0.35 −0.40 −0.05
C16:0 0.54* −0.65** −0.08 0.35 −0.52* 0.07
C17:0 0.02 −0.04 0.02 0.25 −0.12 −0.17
C18:0 −0.01 0.29 −0.26 0.08 0.25 −0.31
C18:1 −0.66** 0.69*** 0.18 −0.61** 0.62** 0.13
C18:2 0.39 −0.55* 0.02 0.32 −0.42 0.01
C18:3 −0.02 −0.11 0.13 −0.08 −0.08 −0.12
C20:1 0.19 −0.28 0.02 0.37 −0.31 −0.15
C20:4 −0.01 0.23 −0.19 0.18 0.05 −0.24
SFA 0.65** −0.47* −0.37 0.61** −0.41 −0.33
UFA −0.65** 0.47 0.37 −0.61** 0.41 0.33
MUFA −0.68** 0.58** 0.31 −0.66** 0.50* 0.30
PUFA 0.38 −0.47* −0.04 0.41 −0.40 −0.09
PUFA/SFA 0.56* −0.55* −0.19 0.58** −0.50* −0.21