| °C | Degrees Celsius |
| µL | Microliter |
| µM | Micromolar |
| BAM | Binary Alignment Map |
| bp | Base pairs |
| cDNA | Complementary DNA |
| CI | Confidence Interval |
| CRESS | Circular Rep-encoding Single-Stranded |
| DNA | Deoxyribonucleic acid |
| dNTP | Deoxyribonucleotide triphosphate |
| ds-cDNA | double-stranded complementary DNA |
| EDTA | Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid |
| GTR | General Time Reversible |
| MFP | ModelFinder Plus |
| ng | Nanogram |
| nt | Nucleotide |
| ORF | Open Reading Frame |
| PCR | Polymerase chain reaction |
| PCV2 | Porcine circovirus type 2 |
| PCV3 | Porcine circovirus type 3 |
| PCVAD | Porcine-circovirus-associated disease |
| PMWS | Postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome |
| RDP4 | Recombination Detection Program version 4 |
| SH-aLRT | Shimodaira–Hasegawa-like approximate Likelihood-Ratio Test |
| SISPA | Sequence-Independent Single Primer Amplification |
| TIM | Transitional model |
| × g | Relative centrifugal force (RCF) |