Table 8.

Expression of LM genes in the offspring of beef cows receiving diets containing CSSO (n = 52) or CON (n = 52) during the last trimester of gestation^1,2

Item	CON	CSSO	SEM	P-value
FABP4
Birth	35.0	73.9	14	0.03
Feedyard	6.09	6.97	0.80	0.44
FASN
Birth	1.77	1.92	0.11	0.36
Feedyard	4.36	4.61	0.44	0.69
MyoD
Birth	13.3	22.6	3.0	0.02
Feedyard	3.76	3.89	0.30	0.76
Myogenin
Birth	7.03	9.77	1.00	0.04
Feedyard	2.45	2.60	0.18	0.55
PPAR- γ
Birth	3.16	4.55	0.56	0.07
Feedyard	2.66	3.00	0.28	0.38
SCD
Birth	3.43	4.54	0.34	0.05
Feedyard	3.16	3.60	0.31	0.33

¹Cows received (dry matter basis) 195 g/cow daily of CSSO (Essentiom; Church and Dwight Co., Inc., Princeton, NJ) or 170 g/cow daily of CON (Energy Booster 100; Milk Specialties, Eden Prairie, MN). Treatments were provided from day 0 (day 195 of gestation) to calving. Calves were weaned on day 290 of the experiment, preconditioned for 35 d (day 291 to 325), and transferred to a feedyard (Cannon Hill Feeders LLC., Nyssa, OR) where they remained until slaughter (day 514).

²Samples of the LM were taken via needle biopsy within 8 h after birth and on day 485 of the experiment. Values are expressed as relative fold change compared with the threshold cycle of reference genes analyzed within the same sample (Ocón-Grove et al., 2008).