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. 2020 Jan 24;99(2):708–718. doi: 10.1016/j.psj.2019.12.031

Table 8.

Fatty acid composition of sperm phospholipid from broiler breeder rooster fed different oil sources with rosemary.

	Diets
	Basal diet	Fish oil (2%)	Corn oil (2%)	Fish/corn oil (50:50%)	Fish oil+RLP	Corn oil +RLP	Fish/corn oil (50:50%)+ RLP³	SEM pooled	P-value
Fatty acids%
C16:0	14.90	15.60	14.51	15.22	15.60	14.51	15.23	0.69	NS
C18:0	23.90	23.67	22.50	23.09	23.67	22.50	23.08	0.70	NS
C18:1 n-9	12.40	11.60	12.30	11.95	10.50	12.30	11.95	0.38	NS
C18:1 n-7	2.30	2.17	2.20	2.19	2.17	2.20	2.16	0.13	NS
C20:1 n-9	3.70^a	2.94^a,b	2.40^b	2.50^b	2.92^a,b	2.37^b	2.46^b	0.20	0.003
C20:0	0.90	1.00	0.80	0.90	0.96	0.81	0.90	0.12	NS
C18:2 n-6	4.90^a	3.33^b	4.91^a	4.20^a,b	3.22^b	4.88^a	4.20^a,b	0.24	0.001
C20:3 n-6	2.10^a	1.70^a,b	1.49^b	1.62^a,b	1.70^a,b	1.52^b	1.62^a,b	0.11	0.03
C20:4 n-6	9.70	7.64	10.37	9.03	7.63	10.33	8.97	0.67	NS
C22:3 n-9	3.50	3.20	2.91	3.07	3.24	2.87	3.03	0.14	NS
C22:4 n-6	19.20^a,b	17.00^b	20.10^a	18.80^a,b	17.07^b	21.09^a	18.76^a,b	0.78	0.001
C22:5 n-3	0.80^c	1.65^a	1.04^b,c	1.35^a,b	1.67^a	1.04^b,c	1.38^a,b	0.10	<0.0001
C22:6 n-3	1.70^d	8.50^a	3.41^c	6.10^b	8.57^a	3.43^c	6.23^b	0.46	<0.0001
SFA¹	39.70	40.27	37.81	39.20	40.23	37.82	39.21	1.45	NS
PUFA²	41.90	43.02	45.14	44.16	43.18	44.22	44.20	2.47	NS
n-6	35.90	29.67	37.78	33.65	29.71	37.82	33.55	1.79	0.20
n-3	2.50^c	10.15^a	4.45^c	7.45^b	10.23^a	4.47^c	7.61^a,b	0.55	<0.0001
n-6/n-3	14.51^a	2.93^c	8.59^b	4.54^c	2.91^c	8.58^b	4.43^c	0.39	<0.0001

Only fatty acids representing more than 1% are reported.

^a–c

Within rows, least squares (means ± S.E) with different superscripts significantly (P ≤ 0.05).

¹

Total saturate fatty acids.

²

Total polyunsaturated fatty acids.

³

Rosemary leaves powder.