Table 4. Effect of graded levels of dietary bee venom on hepatic fatty acid composition (% of total fatty acids) in broiler chickens¹

Items2	Bee venom concentration (ppb)					SEM4	P-value
	0	10	50	100	500		L3	Q3
d 21
Myristic acid (C14:0)	0.878	0.500	0.510	0.644	0.490	0.094	0.203	0.508
Palmitic acid (C16:0)	30.96	32.14	32.35	30.99	29.41	1.060	0.118	0.867
Palmitoleic acid (C16:1)	3.585	2.417	1.892	1.862	2.245	0.245	0.195	0.001
Stearic acid (18:0)	8.740	14.71	17.83	17.15	16.52	1.533	0.142	0.007
Oleic acid (18:1)	35.42	34.75	32.35	33.02	34.52	1.402	0.906	0.175
Linoleic acid (18:2)	17.67	12.08	11.58	14.62	14.27	1.254	0.963	0.372
Linolenic acid (18:3)	0.540	0.967	1.262	1.108	1.410	0.206	0.069	0.188
Arachidonic acid (20:4)	0.223	0.223	0.288	0.228	0.303	0.025	0.065	0.867
∑SFA	40.58	47.33	50.68	48.79	46.42	2.164	0.822	0.037
∑MUFA	39.01	37.13	34.24	34.88	36.77	1.531	0.920	0.069
∑PUFA	18.44	13.25	13.13	15.96	15.99	1.304	0.696	0.520

n, 7/treatment.
SFA, saturated fatty acid; MUFA, monounsaturated fatty acid; PUFA, polyunsaturated fatty acid.
L, linear; Q, quadratic.
SEM, standard error of the means.