Table 3.

Pearson correlation coefficients between the fatty acid composition and the relative gene expression levels in the liver from Alentejana and Barrosã bulls fed high or low silage diets ¹⁻⁴

	CPT1A	DGAT1	ELOVL2	ELOVL5	FADS1	FADS2	FASN	INSR	PPARA
14:0	0.56***			0.40*	0.39*	0.34*		0.32*
14:1c9							0.42**
16:0	0.60***		0.44**	0.60***	0.42**
16:1c7					0.48**	0.44**
16:1c9	0.47**		0.37*	0.51***	0.38*
17:0			−0.37*
17:1c9	0.31*			0.39*	0.33*
18:0				−0.40**	−0.41**
18:1t6t8						0.32*
18:1 t9					0.41*	0.40*
18:1 t10		−0.34*
18:1 t11
18:1 t12
18:1c9	0.42**		0.33*	0.50**	0.38*
18:1c11					0.51**	0.40*
18:1c12
18:1c13					0.48**	0.39*
18:1t16c14
18:2n-6				−0.32*	−0.53***	−0.52***		−0.33*
20:0					0.48**	0.68***
18:3n-3					−0.46**	−0.50**
20:1c11						0.38*		0.32*	0.38*
20:2n-6	−0.59***			−0.46**	−0.34*			−0.38*
20:3n-9		0.44**	0.47**
20:3n-6					0.50**	0.67***		0.35*
20:4n-6									0.34*
23:0
20:5n-3
22:4n-6	−0.32*				0.72***	0.70***
22:5n-3								0.32*

¹Statistical significance of Pearson correlation coefficients: *, P < 0.05; **, P < 0.01; ***, P < 0.001.

²Fatty acid contents expressed as mol/g liver.

³There were no significant correlations between SCD or SREBF1 and individual fatty acids.

⁴There were no significant correlations between 15:0, CLA (c9t11), 22:6n-3 and the mRNA levels of the genes under analysis.