Effect of Dietary Source on Rabbit Male Reproduction

Table 6

Testes FA profile of the rabbit bucks fed the control or -enriched diets.

	% of total evaluated FA	Control	FLAX	FISH	Pooled SE
Saturated fatty acid (SFA)	Miristic (C14 : 0)	2.50	2.80	1.80	1.35
	Palmitic (C16 : 0)	25.78	26.19	26.81	2.02
	Stearic (C18 : 0)	11.14	10.00	10.27	1.91
	SFA	39.43	38.99	38.88	2.90
Monounsaturated fatty acid (MUFA)	Palmitoleic (C16 : 1)	2.58	2.94	4.47	0.22
	Oleic (C18 : 1)	16.36	17.89	19.49	1.55
	MUFA	18.95	20.83	23.97	1.85
polyunsaturated acids (PUFA)	Linoleic (LA) (C18 : 2)	11.85	13.37	14.01	2.01
	Eicosatrienoic (C20 : 3)	5.87	5.39	3.67	0.08
	Arachidonic (ARA) (C20 : 4)	8.46	5.87	6.27	0.04
	Adrenic (C22 : 4)	2.32	1.60	1.18	0.24
	All-cis 4,7,10,13,16-docosapentaenoic (DPA) (C22 : 5)	10.04^b	5.88^a	7.01^ab	3.34
	PUFA	38.53^b	32.11^a	32.15^a	0.22
polyunsaturated acids (PUFA)	α-Linolenic (ALA) (C18 : 3)	2.03^a	7.02^b	3.00^a	0.05
	Eicosapentaenoic (EPA) (C20 : 5)	0.01	0.05	0.04	0.09
	All-cis-7,10,13,16,19-docosapentaenoic (DPA) (C22 : 5)	0.01	0.05	0.09	1.50
	Docosahexaenoic (DHA) (C22 : 6)	0.07^a	0.83^b	1.46^b	0.10
	PUFA	2.13^a	7.91^b	4.58^b	3.85
	/	18.13^c	4.06^a	7.02^b	25.2

a, b, and c on the same line means .