Hermenegildo Lucas Justino Chiaia, Rafael Medeiros de Oliveira Silva, Angélica Simone Cravo Pereira, Henrique Nunes de Oliveira, Mariana Piatto Berton, Daniel Gustavo Mansan Gordo, Fabieli Louise Braga Feitosa, Elisa Peripolli, Bianca Ferreira Olivieri, Rafael Lara Tonussi, Fernando Baldi, Rafael Espigolan, Carolyn Aboujaoude, Adrielle Matias Ferrinho, Lenise Freitas Mueller, Lucia Galvão de Albuquerque, Marcos Vinícius Antunes de Lemos, Ana Fabrícia Braga Magalhães, Humberto Tonhati, Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Universidade de São Paulo (USP), and Natl Counsel Technol & Sci Dev
Made available in DSpace on 2018-11-26T17:44:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2018-01-01 Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) The aim of the present study was to estimate covariance components and genetic parameters for beef fatty acid (FA) composition of intramuscular fat in the longissimus thoracis muscle in Nelore bulls finished in feedlot. Twenty-two FAs were selected. The heritability estimates for individual FAs ranged from 0.01 to 0.35. The heritability estimates for myristic (0.25 +/- 0.09), palmitic (0.18 +/- 0.07), oleic (0.28 +/- 0.09), linoleic (0.16 +/- 0.06) and alpha-linolenic (0.35 +/- 0.10) FAs were moderate. Stearic, elaidic, palmitoleic, vaccenic, conjugated linoleic acid, docosahexanoic, eicosatrienoic and arachidonic FAs had heritability estimates below 0.15. The genetic-correlation estimates between the individual saturated FAs (SFAs) were low and negative between myristic and stearic FAs (-0.22 +/- 0.84), moderate between palmitic and myristic FAs (0.58 +/- 0.56) and negative between palmitic and stearic FAs (-0.69 +/- 0.45). The genetic correlations between the individual long-chain polyunsaturated FAs (PUFAs) were positive and moderate (>0.30). However, the genetic-correlation estimates between long-chain PUFAs and alpha-linolenic acid were low (