Table 1. RNA-Seq gene expression distribution for the two breeds and the four lactation time points studied in the present work.

	Churra				Assaf
	D10	D50	D120	D150	D10	D50	D120	D150
Highly expressed genes (≥500 FPKM)	129	109	116	111	129	141	107	100
Medium expressed genes (≥10 FPKM to 500 FPKM)	5982	4747	5238	4986	5977	5916	4664	4397
Lowly expressed genes (<10 FPKM)	10688	12336	11393	11753	10914	11329	11448	11907
Total expressed genes	16799	17192	16747	16850	17020	17386	16219	16404
Non expressed genes	8397	8004	8449	8346	8176	7810	8977	8792