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 |