| Abbreviation | Definition |
| 3α-hsd | 3-alpha-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase |
| Adcy3 | adenylate cyclase 3 |
| ANOVA | analysis of variance |
| AR | androgen receptor |
| cAMP | cyclic adenosine monophosphate |
| cDNA | complementary DNA |
| ChIP-seq | chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing |
| CRISPR/Cas9 | clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats/CRISPR-associated protein 9 |
| CYP19a1 | cytochrome P450 family 19 subfamily A member 1 (aromatase) |
| DEGs | differentially expressed genes |
| DESeq2 | Differential Expression analysis for sequence count data 2 (software) |
| Dmrt1 | doublesex and mab-3 related transcription factor 1 |
| E2 | 17β-estradiol |
| ECM | extracellular matrix |
| FDR | false discovery rate |
| FPKM | fragments per kilobase of transcript per million mapped reads |
| Foxl2 | forkhead box L2 |
| GAPDH | glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase |
| H&E | hematoxylin and eosin |
| KEGG | Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes |
| OR | Oviductus Ranae |
| PCA | principal component analysis |
| PI3K-Akt | phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase–protein kinase B |
| PGE2 | prostaglandin E2 |
| PPAR | peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor |
| PRMT6 | protein arginine methyltransferase 6 |
| Ptgs2 | prostaglandin-endoperoxide synthase 2 |
| qRT-PCR | quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction |
| RIN | RNA integrity number |
| RNA-seq | RNA sequencing |
| RSEM | RNA-Seq by Expectation-Maximization (software) |
| Rspo1 | R-spondin 1 |
| SD | standard deviation |
| Shbg | sex hormone binding globulin |
| Sox9 | SRY-box transcription factor 9 |
| StAR | steroidogenic acute regulatory protein |
| T | testosterone |
| TGF-β | transforming growth factor-beta |
| TP | testosterone propionate |
| Wnt | Wingless/Integrated (signaling pathway) |