Table 3. Fatty acid and dimethylacetal composition (% of total compounds) in liver of male and female muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus).

Liver	Female	SEM	Male	SEM	P value
Saturated and branched chain FA
10:0	0.04	± 0.003	0.05	± 0.003	0.743
12:0	0.02	± 0.002	0.01	± 0.002	0.611
14:0	0.52	± 0.040	0.54	± 0.049	0.761
14:0-12Me (iso)	0.03	± 0.003	0.03	± 0.003	0.158
15:0	0.44	± 0.022	0.55	± 0.027	0.008
15:0-13Me (iso)	0.17	± 0.018	0.23	± 0.023	0.066
15:0-12Me (anteiso)	0.25	± 0.031	0.33	± 0.039	0.096
16:0	15.9	± 0.53	14.7	± 0.65	0.165
16:0-14Me (iso)	0.17	± 0.014	0.22	± 0.018	0.054
16:0–3,7,11,15Me	0.26	± 0.022	0.29	± 0.027	0.333
17:0	1.72	± 0.062	1.86	± 0.076	0.169
17:0-15Me (iso)	0.28	± 0.015	0.29	± 0.019	0.455
17:0-14Me (anteiso)	0.68	± 0.034	0.77	± 0.041	0.089
Cyclo-17 1	0.10	± 0.007	0.10	± 0.009	0.575
18:0	24.9	± 0.74	26.8	± 0.90	0.119
18:0-16Me (iso)	0.22	± 0.026	0.16	± 0.021	0.107
20:0	0.26	± 0.021	0.27	± 0.025	0.718
Monounsaturated FA
14:1 cis-9	0.04	± 0.005	0.04	± 0.006	0.860
16:1	0.15	± 0.010	0.16	± 0.012	0.536
16:1 cis-7	0.50	± 0.020	0.48	± 0.025	0.545
16:1 cis-9	1.46	± 0.093	1.27	± 0.114	0.222
17:1 cis-9	0.60	± 0.030	0.60	± 0.036	0.871
18:1 trans-6/-7/-8	0.07	± 0.008	0.06	± 0.010	0.437
18:1 trans-9	0.15	± 0.007	0.17	± 0.009	0.061
18:1 trans-10/-11	0.84	± 0.051	0.95	± 0.063	0.208
18:1 cis-9 2	25.7	± 0.86	22.8	± 1.05	0.046
18:1 cis-11 3	1.28	± 0.067	1.22	± 0.082	0.527
18:1 cis-12	0.07	± 0.004	0.07	± 0.005	0.570
18:1 cis-13	0.15	± 0.019	0.14	± 0.023	0.799
18:1 cis-14/trans-16	0.10	± 0.010	0.13	± 0.013	0.059
18:1 cis-15	0.10	± 0.008	0.11	± 0.009	0.397
19:1 cis-9 4	0.18	± 0.030	0.21	± 0.036	0.496
19:1 cis-11 4	0.08	± 0.007	0.10	± 0.008	0.184
20:1	0.13	± 0.022	0.16	± 0.027	0.514
Polyunsaturated FA
18:2 n-6	4.49	± 0.388	4.15	± 0.475	0.588
18:2 trans-11,trans-15	0.02	± 0.002	0.02	± 0.002	0.165
18:2 trans-9,trans-12	0.05	± 0.004	0.06	± 0.005	0.246
18:2 trans-8,cis-13/cis-9,trans-12	0.04	± 0.003	0.04	± 0.004	0.408
18:2 trans-9,cis-12	0.01	± 0.003	0.01	± 0.004	0.308
18:2 trans-11,cis-15	0.02	± 0.002	0.02	± 0.002	0.279
18:2 cis-9,trans-11 (CLA)	0.75	± 0.045	0.79	± 0.055	0.580
18:2 trans,trans (CLA-tt)	0.07	± 0.007	0.06	± 0.009	0.445
18:3 n-6	0.07	± 0.007	0.07	± 0.009	0.922
18:3 n-3	1.28	± 0.073	1.39	± 0.089	0.364
20:2 n-6	0.11	± 0.008	0.13	± 0.010	0.092
20:3 n-9	1.01	± 0.105	1.00	± 0.129	0.943
20:3 n-6	0.78	± 0.047	0.89	± 0.057	0.178
20:4 n-6	6.59	± 0.376	7.50	± 0.461	0.143
20:5 n-3	1.95	± 0.104	2.14	± 0.127	0.248
22:4 n-6	0.27	± 0.014	0.29	± 0.018	0.332
22:5 n-3	4.14	± 0.220	4.53	± 0.270	0.277
22:6 n-3	0.68	± 0.052	0.86	± 0.063	0.044
Dimethylacetals
16:0	0.08	± 0.013	0.08	± 0.016	0.712
18:0	0.13	± 0.018	0.12	± 0.023	0.843
18:1 cis-9	0.03	± 0.009	0.02	± 0.010	0.327

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.