Table 1. Characterization of animals and number of tissue and DNA samples.
Number of samples | |||||||||||
Breed/Cross | Age (mo) | IMF (%) | DNA | MLD | IMF | IRMF | SCF | Skin | Heart | Liver | Lung |
Japanese Black (JB) | 26 | 34.3±4.2 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 6 | - | - | - | - |
Holstein (HS) | 26 | 20.4±5.5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | - | - | - | - |
Charolais (CH) | 26 | 6.4±1.8 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | - | - | - | - |
Crossbred (JB x diverse; CB) | 15 | 2.5±0.5 | 5 | 5 | - | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 |
MLD: M. longissimus, IMF: intramuscular fat, IRMF: intermuscular fat, SCF: subcutaneous fat.