TABLE 4.

FA profiles in ovulated oocytes from spawns (% total FA).

	NC	HC	p-value
Saturated
14:0	3.84 ± 0.30	4.10 ± 0.56	0.200
15:0	0.48 ± 0.05	0.52 ± 0.07	0.200
16:0	24.43 ± 0.63	23.47 ± 1.22	0.200
18:0	4.56 ± 0.13	4.24 ± 0.38	0.109
Total	33.31 ± 0.85	32.33 ± 1.95	0.522
MUFA
16:1	10.11 ± 0.65	11.56 ± 1.12	0.025
18:1	28.12 ± 1.06	27.73 ± 1.40	0.522
20:1	1.06 ± 0.19	1.07 ± 0.15	0.423
Total	39.29 ± 1.14	40.36 ± 2.19	0.423
PUFA n-6
18:2 n-6	3.82 ± 0.79	3.53 ± 0.46	0.522
20:2 n-6	0.39 ± 0.06	0.46 ± 0.10	0.200
20:3 n-6	0.25 ± 0.10	0.52 ± 0.16	0.006
20:4 n-6	1.12 ± 0.09	1.54 ± 0.20	0.004
Total	5.58 ± 0.89	6.05 ± 0.68	0.150
PUFA n-3
18:3 n-3	1.10 ± 0.29	0.80 ± 0.15	0.055
18:4 n-3	0.28 ± 0.06	0 ± 0	0.002
20:4 n-3	0.39 ± 0.05	0.12 ± 0.15	0.010
20:5 n-3	4.78 ± 0.35	3.88 ± 0.38	0.004
22:5 n-3	0.76 ± 0.22	0.77 ± 0.34	1
22:6 n-3	11.94 ± 2.09	12.88 ± 2.68	0.631
Total	19.24 ± 2.07	18.45 ± 3.11	0.522
LC-PUFA n-3	17.87 ± 2.26	17.65 ± 3.05	0.631
Sat/PUFA	1.34 ± 0.13	1.32 ± 0.24	0.749
n3/n6	3.45 ± 0.71	3.05 ± 0.40	0.150

Data are presented as means ± SD (n = 6 spawns) and analyzed by a Student T-test (P-values < 0.05 in bold), followed by a post hoc Tukey test in case of significant interaction. In this latter case, mean values not sharing a common lowercase letter are significantly different from each other. MUFA, monosaturated fatty acids; PUFA, polyunsaturated fatty acids; LC-PUFA, long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids; Sat, saturated; n-6, omega 3; n-6, omega 6; NC, no carbohydrate diet; HC, high carbohydrate diet.