Table 3.

Numbers of genes and proteins associated with mitochondrial protein synthesis (ribosomes, transcription, and tRNA) as well as transport of molecules into the mitochondria that were higher (H) or lower (L) in breast muscle of high feed efficiency (FE) compared to low FE pedigree broiler male for the terms provided obtained from global expression microarray, proteomics, and RNAseq datasets and for combined in all three global expression datasets.

Terms	Microarraya —			Proteomicsb —			RNAseqc —
	H	L	P*	H	L	P*	H	L	P*
Mitochondrial ribosomal proteins	18	6	0.008	0	1		55	4	8 × 10−13
TOMMd	0	0		2	1		2	2
TIMMe	1	1		0	0		9	0	0.0029
Mitochondrial transcription	2	0		0	0		5	1	0.0938
Mitochondrial tRNA	1	0		1	0		14	2	0.0018
Mitochondrial ribosome, translational, processing, peptidase	4	0	0.0625	0	0		6	2	0.1093

^acDNA microarray —Kong et al. (2011).

^bShotgun proteomics—Kong B. et al. (2016).

^cRNAseq–Bottje et al. (2017).

^*Binomial (exact) P values for H vs. L in each dataset.

^dTransport protein outer mitochondrial membrane.

^eTransport protein inner mitochondrial membrane.