(A) The developmental dataset including virgin (V) at 10 weeks and 12 weeks of age, pregnancy (P) at 1, 2, 3, 8.5, 12.5, 14.5 and 17.5 days post coitum, lactation (Lac) at 1, 3 and 7 days following partition, and involution (Inv) samples at days 1–4 and 20 following weaning were used in unsupervised clustering. The various clusters denoting involution, lactation, early and late pregnancy that were used in a search of gene ontology are indicated on the right and are denoted A–D. (B) The pubertal dataset including samples from 3 to 7 weeks of development, as also used in unsupervised clustering.