Identification of circRNA-associated ceRNA networks in the longissimus dorsi of yak under different feeding systems

Table 1 Growth performance and Meat and Carcass Traits of yaks in different feeding systems

Characteristics	Group G	Group HF	p-value
Initial body weight (kg)	208.33 ± 12.53	215.67 ± 21.83	0.6549
Final body weight (kg)	306.83 ± 24.34B	377.17 ± 15.77 A	0.001
Average daily gain (kg)	0.52 ± 0.12B	0.86 ± 0.15 A	0.0017
Carcass weight (kg)	124.28 ± 8.77B	208.04 ± 8.75 A	< 0.001
Net meat weight (kg)	94.73 ± 4.55B	176.23 ± 10.61 A	< 0.001
Bone weight (kg)	31.08 ± 1.96b	27.17 ± 2.46a	0.012
Slaughter rate (%)	42.49 ± 10.24B	55.26 ± 14.25 A	< 0.001
Meat-bone ratio	3.46 ± 0.09B	5.68 ± 0.29 A	< 0.001
Eye muscle area (cm²)	57.89 ± 8.83 A	76.64 ± 10.45B	< 0.001
L* 45 min	6.32 ± 0.80	6.98 ± 1.27	0.305
a* 45 min	28.12 ± 2.32	29.29 ± 2.49	0.418
b* 45 min	5.67 ± 1.04	6.42 ± 1.38	0.311
L * 24 h	7.61 ± 0.99	8.86 ± 1.20	0.054
a* 24 h	32.68 ± 0.91	33.23 ± 1.19	0.385
b* 24 h	9.94 ± 1.18	8.62 ± 0.81	0.047
pH 45 min	6.89 ± 0.32 A	6.34 ± 0.24B	0.007
pH 24 h	5.49 ± 0.25B	6.03 ± 0.28 A	0.005
Cooking loss (%)	17.82 ± 3.84B	27.21 ± 1.70 A	< 0.001
Drip loss (%)	15.06 ± 2.30	17.27 ± 3.12	0.192
Shear force (N)	17.70 ± 1.51 A	14.69 ± 2.35B	0.0025

The average daily gain of grazing yak displays a negative value. Different lowercase letters ‘a’ and ‘b’ within the same group indicate statistical significance at p < 0.05, while uppercase letters ‘A’ and ‘B’ indicate statistical significance at p < 0.01 (same applies below)

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