“…Also, the within-breed variability observed in FA profiles has prompted the possibility of improvement by selection (Nogi, Honda, Mukai, Okagaki, & Oyama, 2011), but the heritabilities reported for FA profiles in beef cattle have been inconsistent, with estimates for groups of FAs ranging from about 0.10 to nearly 0.70 (Cecchinato et al, 2012;Nogi et al, 2011;Pitchford, Deland, Siebert, Malau-Aduli, & Bottema, 2002). For the apparent activity of enzymes involved in FA metabolism, such as Δ 9 desaturases and elongase, the estimated heritability is reported to be about 0.15 to 0.20, both in beef (Pitchford et al, 2002) and dairy cattle (Soyeurt, Dehareng, Mayeres, Bertozzi, & Gengler, 2008).…”