Table V.

The top 60 GO terms by prevalence from both biological and molecular ontologies (level 3) represented on the TRAITS–SGP cDNA microarray (significant BLASTX hit defined as e value < e⁻¹⁰)

GO ontology: biological process-level 3
GO term	GO description	Features*
GO:0044237	Cellular metabolic process	3693
GO:0044238	Primary metabolic process	3489
GO:0043170	Macromolecule metabolic process	2904
GO:0050789	Regulation of biological process	1526
GO:0050794	Regulation of cellular process	1354
GO:0006810	Transport	1215
GO:0016043	Cell organization and biogenesis	1159
GO:0007154	Cell communication	1148
GO:0009058	Biosynthetic process	1030
GO:0019222	Regulation of metabolic process	903
GO:0006091	Generation of precursor metabolites and energy	571
GO:0009056	Catabolic process	468
GO:0006807	Nitrogen compound metabolic process	446
GO:0048869	Cellular developmental process	431
GO:0051641	Cellular localization	426
GO:0051649	Establishment of cellular localization	423
GO:0007275	Multicellular organismal development	404
GO:0048856	Anatomical structure development	404
GO:0045184	Establishment of protein localization	385
GO:0048468	Cell development	357
GO:0006950	Response to stress	340
GO:0016265	Death	312
GO:0007049	Cell cycle	310
GO:0022402	Cell cycle process	246
GO:0008283	Cell proliferation	219
GO:0042221	Response to chemical stimulus	216
GO:0007155	Cell adhesion	210
GO:0009653	Anatomical structure morphogenesis	194
GO:0050877	Neurological process	182
GO:0009605	Response to external stimulus	182
GO:0046903	Secretion	169
GO:0006955	Immune response	157
GO:0065009	Regulation of a molecular function	152
GO:0006952	Defence response	131
GO:0006928	Cell motility	130
GO:0051674	Localization of cell	130
GO:0009607	Response to biotic stimulus	102
GO:0009719	Response to endogenous stimulus	95
GO:0051239	Regulation of multicellular organismal process	92
GO:0019725	Cell homeostasis	79
GO:0006936	Muscle contraction	78
GO:0065008	Regulation of biological quality	72
GO:0015976	Carbon utilization	66
GO:0016049	Cell growth	61
GO:0040008	Regulation of growth	61
GO:0051301	Cell division	60
GO:0002252	Immune effector process	56
GO:0019748	Secondary metabolic process	54
GO:0007610	Behaviour	48
GO:0050878	Regulation of body fluids	48
GO:0019953	Sexual reproduction	47
GO:0000051	Urea cycle intermediate metabolic process	45
GO:0002682	Regulation of immune system process	41
GO:0051707	Response to other organism	40
GO:0002253	Activation of immune response	40
GO:0040012	Regulation of locomotion	31
GO:0050793	Regulation of developmental process	33
GO:0009628	Response to abiotic stimulus	36
GO:0048646	Anatomical structure formation	36
GO:0050817	Coagulation	38
GO ontology: molecular function-level 3
GO:0005515	Protein binding	2223
GO:0003676	Nucleic acid binding	1293
GO:0043167	Ion binding	1150
GO:0016787	Hydrolase activity	1122
GO:0000166	Nucleotide binding	1051
GO:0016740	Transferase activity	674
GO:0016491	Oxidoreductase activity	584
GO:0004871	Signal transducer activity	462
GO:0003735	Structural constituent of ribosome	261
GO:0003700	Transcription factor activity	240
GO:0004857	Enzyme inhibitor activity	175
GO:0016874	Ligase activity	169
GO:0008289	Lipid binding	145
GO:0048037	Cofactor binding	114
GO:0016853	Isomerase activity	113
GO:0008135	Translation factor activity, nucleic acid binding	109
GO:0030246	Carbohydrate binding	106
GO:0003712	Transcription cofactor activity	99
GO:0016829	Lyase activity	98
GO:0008047	Enzyme activator activity	85
GO:0030695	GTPase regulator activity	68
GO:0016563	Transcriptional activator activity	67
GO:0016564	Transcriptional repressor activity	65
GO:0004386	Helicase activity	65
GO:0004803	Transposase activity	63
GO:0046906	Tetrapyrrole binding	62
GO:0003702	RNA polymerase II transcription factor activity	57
GO:0005200	Structural constituent of cytoskeleton	51
GO:0042277	Peptide binding	40
GO:0019207	Kinase regulator activity	39
GO:0019842	Vitamin binding	36
GO:0005201	Extracellular matrix structural constituent	36
GO:0003682	Chromatin binding	36
GO:0001871	Pattern binding	36
GO:0008307	Structural constituent of muscle	30
GO:0004601	Peroxidase activity	28
GO:0005212	Structural constituent of eye lens	26
GO:0019208	Phosphatase regulator activity	25
GO:0019825	Oxygen binding	24
GO:0008430	Selenium binding	23
GO:0003777	Microtubule motor activity	21
GO:0005496	Steroid binding	19
GO:0019239	Deaminase activity	18
GO:0051540	Metal cluster binding	18
GO:0043021	Ribonucleoprotein binding	13
GO:0008144	Drug binding	12
GO:0019840	Isoprenoid binding	10
GO:0042165	Neurotransmitter binding	9
GO:0005199	Structural constituent of cell wall	9
GO:0043028	Caspase regulator activity	7
GO:0042979	Ornithine decarboxylase regulator activity	6
GO:0015238	Drug transporter activity	6
GO:0030249	Guanylate cyclase regulator activity	6
GO:0030235	Nitric-oxide synthase regulator activity	5
GO:0008639	Small protein conjugating enzyme activity	5
GO:0003711	Transcriptional elongation regulator activity	5
GO:0030371	Translation repressor activity	4
GO:0009975	Cyclase activity	4
GO:0031406	Carboxylic acid binding	4
GO:0000146	Microfilament motor activity	4

GO, gene ontology; SGP, salmon genome project; TRAITS, TRanscriptome Analysis of Important Traits of Salmon.

^*Number of features on TRAITS–SGP cDNA microarray with identified GO term.