Table 5. Genes identified as potential molecular biomarkers for use for the selection of compensatory growth.

Reference	Genes1
Connor et al. [24]	ACSL5 ACSM1 ACTA2 ACTB ACTG1 ACTN1 ADH5 AHCY ALDH18A1 ALDH1A1 ARPC3 BLVRB BMP2K C1QB CALR CALU CC2D1A CCND1 CCT5 CCT6A CDC34 CEBPG CIB1 CKB CMBL COL4A1 COQ7 CPEB4 CPT2 CTSF CYP51A1 DAAM1 DCN DHRS3 DNAJB11 DUS1L DUSP6 EDC4 EDEM3 EEF1B2 ENO1 EXTL1 FAM131A FANCM FBXL4 FKBP3 FNBP4 GADD45A GNL3 Gtf2ird2 HINT1 HMGCR HMGCS1 HPDL HSP90AA1 HSP90AB1 HSP90B1 HSPA5 HSPA8 HSPB1 HSPH1 IL27RA KLF15 MGA MRPL17 MYL6 MYO1B MYO1E NAMPT NANS NDRG1 NDRG2 NDUFA4L2 NRIP1 NSDHL NUDCD2 ODC1 OTUD4 PDE7B PFKFB1 PGK1 PGRMC1 PHF21A PHGDH PLCB3 POLR21 POLR2L PON1 PPA1 PRKD2 PSAP PSAT1 RPL3 RPL32 RRP15 SARS SCUBE2 SEMA6B SLC12A7 SLC25A39 SLC27A6 SNRPD1 SOCS2 SP4 SPARC STAP2 TARS TCEA3 TIMELESS TRIM33 TTC9 TXN UBE4A VIM VRK2 XPC YWHAB ZC3H6 ZNHIT3
Keogh et al. [52]	ARL4A BCORL1 C10orf10 COL1A1 COL1A2 FBLN1 LNP1 MAST3 MGP NOV SELK SPARC TCEA3
Chen et al. [59]	CACNA1H CLEC3B CNN1 COL1A1 DHRS3 ETS2 FMOD IMPA2 KITLG LOXL1 MAOA MRPL12 MTCH2 N4BP1 NFATC2IP PSPH PYCR1 SH3PXD2A SLC27A6 SOD3 SPRY4 THBS1 TIMP1 TNKS1BP1 VIM

¹Genes were commonly expressed and showed the same direction of change in the current dataset and those of Connor et al. [24] and Keogh et al. [52] in relation to compensatory growth and Chen et al. [59] in relation to feed efficiency