Table 3.

Casein characteristics of milk from different mammalian species^#.

	Ruminants						Non-ruminants		Human
Properties	Cattle	Buffalo	Goat	Sheep	Red deer	Camel	Horse	Donkey
Casein micelle	150–182	176A-180	180–301B	180–210	190C	380	255	100–200	64–80
diameter (nm)
Hydration	1.92–3.7D	1.90G	1.43–2.05F	1.71–1.93E	No data	1.70I	No data	~1.0H	No data
(g H2O g protein −1)

^#Source: Adapted and modified from Claeys et al. (19).

Values derived from other references are represented by uppercase case letters: A, Roy et al. (29); B, Nguyen et al. (42), Pierre et al. (43), and Pierre et al. (44); C, Roy et al. (29); D, Dalgleish (45), Wang et al. (46), and Dewan et al. (47); E, Pellegrini et al. (48); F, Remeuf et al. (49); G, Ahmad et al. (50); H, Luo et al. (51); I, Beaucher et al. (52).