| ACeV | anterior cerebral vein |
| BA | basilar artery |
| BBB | blood–brain barrier |
| ccRCC | clear cell renal cell carcinoma |
| CDS | coding sequence |
| CtA | central artery |
| DEG | Differentially Expressed Gene |
| DLAV | dorsal longitudinal anastomotic vessel |
| dpf | day post fertilization |
| GFP | Green Fluorescent Protein |
| GO | Gene Ontology |
| hpf | hour post-fertilization |
| KEGG | Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes |
| MCeV | middle cerebral vein |
| mpf | month post fertilization |
| PCS | posterior communicating segment |
| PFA | paraformaldehyde |
| PHBC | primordial hindbrain channel |
| RP | Ribosomal protein |
| WISH | whole-mount in situ hybridization |