Table 1. Fatty acid and dimethylacetal composition (% of total compounds) in muscle of male and female muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus).

Muscle	Female	SEM	Male	SEM	P value
Saturated and branched chain FA
10:0	0.05	± 0.003	0.06	± 0.004	0.541
12:0	0.02	± 0.002	0.02	± 0.002	0.575
14:0	1.44	± 0.069	1.48	± 0.085	0.771
14:0-12Me (iso)	0.02	± 0.001	0.03	± 0.002	0.001
14:0-6Me	0.005	± 0.0007	0.004	± 0.0008	0.570
14:0-8Me	0.002	± 0.0004	0.003	± 0.005	0.765
14:0-4Me	0.01	± 0.001	0.01	± 0.001	0.732
14:0-10Me	0.01	± 0.001	0.01	± 0.002	0.510
15:0	0.17	± 0.010	0.21	± 0.012	0.029
15:0-13Me (iso)	0.08	± 0.005	0.11	± 0.006	0.001
15:0-12Me (anteiso)	0.09	± 0.005	0.12	± 0.007	0.002
16:0	22.1	± 0.41	21.7	± 0.51	0.494
16:0-14Me (iso)	0.09	± 0.005	0.11	± 0.006	0.003
16:0-2Me	0.02	± 0.001	0.02	± 0.002	0.267
16:0-6Me	0.01	± 0.001	0.01	± 0.002	0.345
16:0-8Me	0.01	± 0.001	0.01	± 0.001	0.165
16:0-4Me	0.01	± 0.001	0.02	± 0.001	0.156
16:0-12Me	0.02	± 0.002	0.02	± 0.002	0.799
16:0–3,7,11,15Me	0.09	± 0.005	0.10	± 0.006	0.707
17:0	0.86	± 0.028	0.92	± 0.034	0.146
17:0-15Me (iso)	0.18	± 0.008	0.20	± 0.010	0.066
17:0-14Me (anteiso)	0.37	± 0.010	0.44	± 0.013	0.001
Cyclo-17 1	0.06	± 0.004	0.07	± 0.004	0.316
18:0	22.3	± 0.47	22.2	± 0.57	0.922
18:0-16Me (iso)	0.12	± 0.005	0.14	± 0.006	0.039
20:0	0.21	± 0.013	0.24	± 0.016	0.194
21:0	0.01	± 0.002	0.02	± 0.002	0.049
22:0	0.05	± 0.006	0.06	± 0.007	0.284
24:0	0.04	± 0.004	0.04	± 0.005	0.976
26:0	0.03	± 0.003	0.02	± 0.004	0.239
Monounsaturated FA
14:1 cis-9	0.07	± 0.005	0.08	± 0.007	0.578
16:1 cis-7	0.22	± 0.008	0.24	± 0.010	0.054
16:1 cis-9	1.66	± 0.062	1.71	± 0.076	0.596
17:1 cis-9	0.44	± 0.013	0.47	± 0.016	0.165
18:1 trans-6/-7/-8	0.03	± 0.002	0.03	± 0.003	0.554
18:1 trans-9	0.15	± 0.007	0.16	± 0.008	0.440
18:1 trans-10/-t11	0.48	± 0.041	0.59	± 0.050	0.132
18:1 cis-9 2	43.3	± 0.60	43.2	± 0.74	0.890
18:1 cis-11 3	0.92	± 0.032	0.92	± 0.039	0.972
18:1 cis-12	0.03	± 0.002	0.03	± 0.002	0.938
18:1 cis-13	0.10	± 0.007	0.10	± 0.009	0.803
18:1 cis-14/trans-16	0.03	± 0.001	0.03	± 0.001	0.861
18:1 cis-15	0.07	± 0.006	0.08	± 0.008	0.217
19:1 cis-9 4	0.09	± 0.002	0.10	± 0.003	0.003
19:1 cis-11 4	0.03	± 0.002	0.03	± 0.002	0.630
20:1	0.04	± 0.003	0.04	± 0.003	0.085
Polyunsaturated FA
18:2 n-6	1.28	± 0.137	1.24	± 0.168	0.828
18:2 trans-11,trans-15	0.04	± 0.002	0.04	± 0.002	0.419
18:2 trans-9,trans-12	0.03	± 0.001	0.04	± 0.002	0.003
18:2 cis-9,trans-13/trans-8,cis-12	0.03	± 0.004	0.03	± 0.006	0.573
18:2 trans-8,cis-13/cis-9,trans-12	0.02	± 0.005	0.02	± 0.006	0.961
18:2 trans-9,cis-12	0.01	± 0.002	0.01	± 0.002	0.987
18:2 trans-11,cis-15	0.02	± 0.002	0.03	± 0.003	0.053
18:2 cis-9,trans-11 (CLA)	0.45	± 0.022	0.53	± 0.026	0.045
18:3 n-3	0.41	± 0.036	0.44	± 0.044	0.566
18:3 cis-9,trans-11,cis-15	0.01	± 0.003	0.03	± 0.004	0.038
20:3 n-9	0.08	± 0.008	0.07	± 0.010	0.320
20:3 n-6	0.04	± 0.004	0.04	± 0.005	0.702
20:4 n-6	0.36	± 0.044	0.34	± 0.054	0.786
20:5 n-3	0.08	± 0.011	0.08	± 0.013	0.907
22:4 n-6	0.05	± 0.003	0.04	± 0.004	0.289
22:5 n-3	0.28	± 0.021	0.28	± 0.026	0.941
22:6 n-3	0.01	± 0.002	0.01	± 0.002	0.113
Dimethylacetals
16:0	0.31	± 0.033	0.27	± 0.041	0.478
18:0	0.27	± 0.038	0.26	± 0.047	0.832
18:1 cis-9 4	0.05	± 0.010	0.07	± 0.012	0.256

Abbreviations: SEM, standard error of the mean

¹11-cyclohexyl-11:0

²Contains 18:1 cis-10/trans-13/trans-14 as minor components

³Contains 18:1 trans-15 as minor component

⁴Tentative identification.