But in general terms, in the sheep carcass,
the ST is composed of predominantly white glycolytic
fibres Type IIb, and the SM, GM and RF are a mixture of
oxidative-glycolytic Type IIa and glycolytic type IIb (White
et al. 1978; Suzuki and Tamate 1988; Greenwood et al. 2006),
with the predominant percentage varying with location in the
muscle (Suzuki and Tamate 1988).