| AEB | Alternative exon boundaries |
| AC | Acetylation |
| ATE | Alternative terminal exons |
| CH3 | Methyl group |
| CSBV | China Sac brood virus |
| CpG | Cytosine–phosphate–guanine |
| DWV | Deformed wing virus |
| DMRs | Differentially methylated regions |
| DNA | Deoxyribonucleic acid |
| DNMT | DNA methyltransferase |
| DsRNA | Double strand RNA |
| ES | Exon skipping |
| GFP | Green fluorescence protein |
| H3 | Histone H3 |
| H3K27me2 | Histone 3 lysine 27 demethylation |
| H3K27me3 | Histone 3 lysine 27 trimethylation |
| H3K36 | Histone 3 lysine 36 |
| H3K36me3 | Histone 3 lysine 36 trimethylation |
| H3K4 | Histone 3 lysine 4 |
| H3K4me2 | Demethylation of histone H3 lysine 4 |
| H3K4me3 | Trimethylation of histone H3 lysine 4 |
| H3K79 | Histone 3 lysine 79 |
| H3K79me2 | Histone 3 lysine 79 demethylation |
| HATs | Histone acetyltransferases |
| HDACs | Histone deacetylases |
| HSF | Heat shock transcription factor |
| HSP | Heat shock proteins |
| IAPV | Israeli acute paralysis virus |
| IR | intron retention |
| KEGG | Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes |
| lncRNA | Long non-coding RNA |
| Me | Methylation |
| miRNAs | MicroRNAs |
| mRNA | Messenger RNA |
| ncRNA | Non-coding RNA |
| Poly I:C | Polyinosinic acid-polycytidylic acid |
| RISC | RNA-Induced silencing complex |
| RNA | Ribonucleic acid |
| RNAi | Ribonucleic acid interference |
| SAM | S-adenosylmethionine |
| siRNA | Small interference RNA |
| TCA | Tricarboxylic acid cycle |
| TOR | Phosphatidylinositol/rapamycin target protein |
| Zeb | Zebularine |
| ZGA | Zygotic genome activation |