Table 3.

Univariate analyses of metabolites associated with sheep carcass merit (YG)

	Metabolite	Fold change	P-value	Metabolite class	Platform
1	Citric acid	<1.50	<0.01	Carboxylic acid	NMR
2	Hippuric acid	<1.50	<0.05	Benzenoid	NMR

These metabolites differentiated between the two groups of YG1 and YG2.