| IMF | Intramuscular fat |
| mRNA | Messenger RNA |
| miRNA | MicroRNA |
| lncRNA | Long non-coding RNA |
| ceRNA | Competing endogenous RNA |
| LE | Low exercise |
| HE | High exercise |
| DE | Differentially expressed |
| rRNA | Ribosomal RNA |
| TPM | Transcripts per million reads |
| FC | Fold change |
| GO | Gene ontology |
| KEGG | Kyoto encyclopedia of genes and genomes |
| SCC | Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient |
| PCC | Pearson correlation coefficient |