Table 2. Fatty acid composition (% of total fatty acids) in subcutaneous adipose tissue of male and female muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus).

Adipose tissue	Female	SEM	Male	SEM	P value
Saturated and branched chain FA
10:0	0.06	± 0.004	0.07	± 0.005	0.083
12:0	0.04	± 0.002	0.05	± 0.003	0.017
14:0	2.96	± 0.100	3.25	± 0.122	0.082
14:0-12Me (iso)	0.06	± 0.005	0.09	± 0.006	0.001
14:0-6Me	0.01	± 0.001	0.01	± 0.001	0.183
14:0-8Me	0.004	± 0.0004	0.004	± 0.0005	0.678
14:0-4Me	0.01	± 0.001	0.01	± 0.001	0.155
14:0-10Me	0.002	± 0.0004	0.002	± 0.0005	0.420
15:0	0.38	± 0.020	0.49	± 0.024	0.002
15:0-13Me (iso)	0.27	± 0.017	0.35	± 0.021	0.011
15:0-12Me (anteiso)	0.25	± 0.017	0.35	± 0.021	0.002
16:0	23.3	± 0.54	23.5	± 0.67	0.798
16:0-14Me (iso)	0.23	± 0.012	0.29	± 0.014	0.004
16:0-2Me	0.03	± 0.003	0.03	± 0.003	0.707
16:0-6Me	0.01	± 0.001	0.01	± 0.001	0.079
16:0-8Me	0.01	± 0.001	0.01	± 0.001	0.141
16:0-4Me	0.03	± 0.001	0.04	± 0.001	0.291
16:0-12Me	0.04	± 0.002	0.04	± 0.003	0.314
16:0–3,7,11,15Me	0.16	± 0.009	0.18	± 0.011	0.110
17:0	1.27	± 0.030	1.39	± 0.036	0.020
17:0-15Me (iso)	0.31	± 0.011	0.35	± 0.013	0.037
17:0-14Me (anteiso)	0.74	± 0.024	0.82	± 0.029	0.050
Cyclo-17 1	0.10	± 0.006	0.09	± 0.008	0.427
18:0	24.5	± 0.52	26.1	± 0.63	0.067
18:0-16Me (iso)	0.16	± 0.005	0.18	± 0.006	0.138
20:0	0.57	± 0.032	0.64	± 0.039	0.171
21:0	0.06	± 0.005	0.07	± 0.006	0.084
22:0	0.24	± 0.026	0.30	± 0.032	0.144
23:0	0.06	± 0.005	0.08	± 0.007	0.101
24:0	0.13	± 0.010	0.13	± 0.012	0.774
25:0	0.01	± 0.001	0.01	± 0.001	0.963
26:0	0.08	± 0.006	0.07	± 0.007	0.357
Monounsaturated FA
14:1 cis-9	0.19	± 0.011	0.17	± 0.014	0.337
16:1 cis-7	0.36	± 0.014	0.43	± 0.017	0.006
16:1 cis-9	2.53	± 0.119	2.19	± 0.145	0.090
17:1 cis-9	0.58	± 0.019	0.56	± 0.024	0.617
18:1 trans-6/-7/-8	0.02	± 0.002	0.02	± 0.002	0.215
18:1 trans-9	0.24	± 0.012	0.27	± 0.014	0.148
18:1 trans-10/-11	1.01	± 0.084	1.43	± 0.102	0.005
18:1 cis-9 2	35.8	± 0.78	32.5	± 0.95	0.014
18:1 cis-11 3	0.74	± 0.020	0.71	± 0.025	0.345
18:1 cis-12	0.04	± 0.003	0.05	± 0.003	0.027
18:1 cis-13	0.10	± 0.008	0.08	± 0.010	0.176
18:1 cis-14/trans-16	0.03	± 0.001	0.04	± 0.002	0.494
18:1 cis-15	0.16	± 0.009	0.17	± 0.011	0.486
19:1 cis-9 4	0.09	± 0.015	0.08	± 0.018	0.835
19:1 cis-11 4	0.03	± 0.001	0.03	± 0.001	0.728
20:1	0.10	± 0.007	0.11	± 0.008	0.541
24:1	0.04	± 0.003	0.04	± 0.003	0.604
Polyunsaturated FA
18:2 n-6	0.41	± 0.022	0.48	± 0.026	0.039
18:2 trans-11,trans-15	0.05	± 0.002	0.05	± 0.002	0.287
18:2 trans-9,trans-12	0.08	± 0.004	0.10	± 0.005	0.029
18:2 cis-9,trans-13/trans-8,cis-12	0.05	± 0.003	0.04	± 0.004	0.205
18:2 trans-8,cis-13/cis-9,trans-12	0.03	± 0.002	0.02	± 0.003	0.691
18:2 trans-9,cis-12	0.02	± 0.002	0.02	± 0.002	0.437
18:2 trans-11,cis-15	0.07	± 0.006	0.09	± 0.007	0.026
18:2 cis-9,trans-11(CLA)	0.57	± 0.027	0.62	± 0.033	0.321
18:3 n-3	0.35	± 0.025	0.41	± 0.031	0.116
18:3 cis-9,trans-11,cis-15	0.04	± 0.009	0.07	± 0.011	0.061
20:3 n-6	0.01	± 0.001	0.01	± 0.001	0.150
20:4 n-6	0.02	± 0.003	0.03	± 0.003	0.368
22:4 n-6	0.02	± 0.001	0.02	± 0.001	0.183
22:5 n-3	0.17	± 0.010	0.18	± 0.012	0.350

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.