| E6 | Embryonic day 6 |
| E12 | Embryonic day 12 |
| D1 | Post-hatching day 1 |
| DEGs | Differentially expressed genes |
| FC | Fold change |
| FDR | False discovery rate |
| GO | Gene ontology |
| BP | Biological process |
| CC | Cellular component |
| MF | Molecular function |
| KEGG | Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes |
| RPKM | Reads per kilobase million mapped reads |
| qRT-PCR | Quantitative real-time RT-PCR |
| SD | Standard deviation |
| UU | Up-up |
| UM | Up-maintain |
| UD | Up-down |
| MU | Maintain-up |
| MD | Maintain-down |
| DU | Down-up |
| DM | Down-maintain |
| DD | Down-down |