Table 3. Amino acid compositions (%) in the milk of Jersey and Holstein cows at 3 DIM and 30 DIM.
Item | Jersey | Holstein | SEM | p-value | ||||
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3 DIM | 30 DIM | 3 DIM | 30 DIM | DIM | Breed | DIM × Breed | ||
% of the milk sample | ||||||||
Cysteine | 0.097 | 0.045 | 0.153 | 0.043 | 0.008 | < 0.001 | 0.186 | 0.167 |
Methionine | 0.137 | 0.081 | 0.142 | 0.071 | 0.009 | 0.001 | 0.933 | 0.743 |
Asparagine | 0.578 | 0.291 | 0.766 | 0.277 | 0.040 | < 0.001 | 0.391 | 0.322 |
Threonine | 0.401 | 0.185 | 0.578 | 0.180 | 0.031 | < 0.001 | 0.234 | 0.241 |
Serine | 0.514 | 0.237 | 0.693 | 0.227 | 0.038 | < 0.001 | 0.386 | 0.334 |
Glutamine | 1.326 | 0.738 | 1.584 | 0.692 | 0.081 | < 0.001 | 0.609 | 0.467 |
Glycine | 0.190 | 0.081 | 0.259 | 0.078 | 0.015 | < 0.001 | 0.404 | 0.365 |
Alanine | 0.273 | 0.134 | 0.359 | 0.122 | 0.020 | < 0.001 | 0.459 | 0.338 |
Valine | 0.433 | 0.215 | 0.557 | 0.193 | 0.031 | < 0.001 | 0.523 | 0.370 |
Isoleucine | 0.304 | 0.162 | 0.348 | 0.144 | 0.019 | < 0.001 | 0.790 | 0.523 |
Leucine | 0.716 | 0.373 | 0.892 | 0.344 | 0.047 | < 0.001 | 0.537 | 0.395 |
Tyrosine | 0.370 | 0.157 | 0.463 | 0.147 | 0.028 | < 0.001 | 0.543 | 0.460 |
Phenylalanine | 0.348 | 0.187 | 0.417 | 0.175 | 0.022 | < 0.001 | 0.605 | 0.464 |
Lysine | 0.562 | 0.295 | 0.718 | 0.276 | 0.037 | < 0.001 | 0.476 | 0.363 |
Histidine | 0.178 | 0.093 | 0.231 | 0.090 | 0.012 | < 0.001 | 0.426 | 0.379 |
Arginine | 0.274 | 0.123 | 0.379 | 0.123 | 0.022 | < 0.001 | 0.367 | 0.333 |
Proline | 0.660 | 0.370 | 0.865 | 0.370 | 0.045 | 0.001 | 0.443 | 0.335 |
DIM, days in milk; SEM, standard error of means.