Table 4. Differential Gene Ontology terms between contigs derived from Diet U and Diet S SSH cDNA libraries.
| GO ID | GO Term | Category | P-Value | Diet U | Diet S |
| GO:0006629 | lipid metabolic process | Up | 0,004 | 25 | 12 |
| GO:0009611 | response to wounding | Down | 0,006 | 14 | 40 |
| GO:0016887 | ATPase activity | Up | 0,007 | 12 | 3 |
| GO:0006643 | membrane lipid metabolic process | Up | 0,007 | 6 | 0 |
| GO:0050817 | coagulation | Down | 0,009 | 10 | 31 |
| GO:0042623 | ATPase activity, coupled | Up | 0,012 | 11 | 3 |
| GO:0006631 | fatty acid metabolic process | Up | 0,013 | 8 | 1 |
| GO:0050878 | regulation of body fluid levels | Down | 0,014 | 10 | 30 |
| GO:0042060 | wound healing | Down | 0,014 | 10 | 30 |
| GO:0009792 | embryonic development ending in birth or egg hatching | Down | 0,016 | 1 | 11 |
| GO:0043009 | chordate embryonic development | Down | 0,016 | 1 | 11 |
| GO:0006664 | glycolipid metabolic process | Up | 0,016 | 5 | 0 |
| GO:0006665 | sphingolipid metabolic process | Up | 0,016 | 5 | 0 |
| GO:0006687 | glycosphingolipid metabolic process | Up | 0,016 | 5 | 0 |
| GO:0005976 | polysaccharide metabolic process | Down | 0,017 | 3 | 15 |
| GO:0007596 | blood coagulation | Down | 0,020 | 10 | 29 |
| GO:0007599 | hemostasis | Down | 0,020 | 10 | 29 |
| GO:0019825 | oxygen binding | Down | 0,020 | 0 | 7 |
| GO:0031406 | carboxylic acid binding | Down | 0,020 | 0 | 7 |
| GO:0015669 | gas transport | Down | 0,020 | 0 | 7 |
| GO:0015671 | oxygen transport | Down | 0,020 | 0 | 7 |
| GO:0005344 | oxygen transporter activity | Down | 0,020 | 0 | 7 |
| GO:0008236 | serine-type peptidase activity | Down | 0,028 | 12 | 31 |
| GO:0017171 | serine hydrolase activity | Down | 0,028 | 12 | 31 |
| GO:0008233 | peptidase activity | Down | 0,033 | 23 | 49 |
| GO:0044255 | cellular lipid metabolic process | Up | 0,035 | 16 | 8 |
| GO:0020037 | heme binding | Down | 0,035 | 9 | 26 |
| GO:0048589 | developmental growth | Down | 0,037 | 0 | 6 |
| GO:0005515 | protein binding | Down | 0,041 | 53 | 93 |
| GO:0040007 | growth | Down | 0,046 | 2 | 11 |
GO enrichment analysis between sequences generated form Diet U (forward subtracted library from the fish fed the unsupplementary diet) and Diet S (reverse subtracted library from the from the fish fed the supplementary diet) SSH libraries using Fisher's exact test with p≤0.05. Category Red: up-regulated in Diet U, Green: down-regulated in Diet U. The numbers of transcripts associated with a specific GO term in their respective libraries is provided.