Table 2.

Biological process gene ontology (GO) categories significantly over-represented in N'Dama and Boran over the time course (P ≤ 0.01).

	Comparison/contrast
Time point	Boran (time point vs 0 dpi)	N'Dama (time point vs 0 dpi)	Boran vs N'Dama
0 dpi	Not applicable	Not applicable	Eating behaviour Regulation of RNA metabolic process Regulation of cytokine biosynthetic process Negative regulation of inflammatory response Regulation of multicellular organismal process Regulation of cytokine production Chromatin assembly
14 dpi	Sodium ion transport Heparan sulfate proteoglycan metabolic process Lactation Neurotransmitter uptake Sphingolipid catabolic process	Regulation of RNA metabolic process mRNA metabolic process	Transport
21 dpi	Cell-cell signalling Adult locomotory behaviour Telomere maintenance Oxygen and reactive oxygen species metabolic process T cell proliferation	Fat cell differentiation Regulation of cytokine production Regulation of cytokine biosynthetic process Endocytosis Anatomical structure morphogenesis Regulation of multicellular organismal process Negative regulation of biosynthetic process Synaptic transmission, dopaminergic Cell motility Embryonic development Regulation of chemotaxis Leukocyte activation Protein polymerization	Defence response
25 dpi	Translation Activation of JNK activity DNA methylation Androgen receptor signalling pathway Actin polymerization and/or depolymerization Sphingolipid catabolic process Response to hydrogen peroxide	Anatomical structure morphogenesis Regulation of cytokine biosynthetic process Endocytosis Regulation of cytokine production	Translation Defence response Sphingolipid catabolic process Response to biotic stimulus
29 dpi	Regulation of protein amino acid phosphorylation	Cytoskeleton organization and biogenesis	Response to biotic stimulus
34 dpi	Translation Regulation of protein amino acid phosphorylation Ras protein signal transduction Regulation of tyrosine phosphorylation of Stat3 protein Defence response Cell-cell signalling Neurotransmitter uptake Oxygen and reactive oxygen species metabolic process	Defence response Response to biotic stimulus Oxygen and reactive oxygen species metabolic process Immunoglobulin mediated immune response Transmembrane receptor protein tyrosine kinase signalling pathway Antimicrobial humoral response (sensu Vertebrata)	Urea cycle Arginine metabolic process Erythrocyte differentiation Translation Response to biotic stimulus Defence response Chondroitin sulfate biosynthetic process Anterior/posterior axis specification Histone ubiquitination Amino acid biosynthetic process Xenobiotic metabolic process RNA export from nucleus