Table 1.

Top biological and molecular GO terms (level 3) on the gilthead sea bream cDNA microarray.

GO description (biological process)	Features
Primary metabolic process	1855
Cellular metabolic process	1843
Macromolecule metabolic process	1523
Regulation of biological process	806
Cellular component organization and biogenesis	736
Transport	693
Regulation of cellular process	678
Cell communication	549
Biosynthetic process	484
Multicellular organismal development	481
Anatomical structure development	470
Regulation of metabolic process	374
Cellular developmental process	359
Response to stress	293
Catabolic process	280
Cellular localization	265
Establishment of cellular localization	263
Cell development	261
Anatomical structure morphogenesis	250
Macromolecule localization	230
Establishment of protein localization	209
Generation of precursor metabolites and energy	200
Regulation of biological quality	182
Cell cycle	178
Death	166
Cell proliferation	165
Nitrogen compound metabolic process	159
Response to external stimulus	157
Response to chemical stimulus	146
Cell cycle process	137
GO description (molecular function)
Protein binding	1452
Hydrolase activity	688
Ion binding	666
Nucleic acid binding	562
Nucleotide binding	511
Transferase activity	473
Oxidoreductase activity	342
Substrate-specific transporter activity	247
Signal transducer activity	208
Transmembrane transporter activity	195
Cofactor binding	117
Enzyme inhibitor activity	109
Ligase activity	98
Transcription factor activity	95
Structural constituent of ribosome	93
Lipid binding	84
Enzyme activator activity	74
Lyase activity	64
Isomerase activity	57
Translation factor activity, nucleic acid binding	54
Transcription activator activity	52
Transcription cofactor activity	52
GTPase regulator activity	52
Vitamin binding	51
Tetrapyrrole binding	50