Table 5.

Biological process of equine follicular fluid proteins across four different reproductive seasons

GO terms / GO names	Reproductive seasons				Shared
	SAN n (%)	SOV n (%)	SUM n (%)	FOV n (%)	proteins n (%)
GO:0008150 / Biological process	31 (13.2)	35 (13.8)	32 (12.7)	40 (13.7)	26 (12.3)
GO:0009987 / Cellular process	26 (11.1)	29 (11.5)	28 (11.2)	32 (11.0)	24 (11.3)
GO:0050789 / Regulation of biological process	25 (10.7)	28 (11.1)	27 (10.8)	30 (10.3)	22 (10.4)
GO:0008152 / Metabolic process	24 (10.3)	25 (9.9)	26 (10.4)	30 (10.3)	22 (10.4)
GO:0043170 / Macromolecule metabolic process	20 (8.5)	20 (7.9)	20 (8.0)	24 (8.2)	18 (8.5)
GO:0050896 / Response to stimulus	19 (8.1)	20 (7.9)	19 (7.6)	25 (8.6)	16 (7.5)
GO:0032501 / Multicellular organism process	14 (6.0)	17 (6.7)	16 (6.4)	18 (6.2)	13 (6.1)
GO:0006810 / Transport	12 (5.1)	14 (5.5)	13 (5.2)	16 (5.5)	12 (5.7)
GO:0007154 / Cell communication	10 (4.3)	10 (4.0)	11 (4.4)	11 (3.8)	10 (4.7)
GO:0007275 / Multicellular organism development	9 (3.8)	10 (4.0)	10 (4.0)	11 (3.8)	8 (3.8)
GO:0030154 / Cell differentiation	9 (3.8)	9 (3.6)	10 (4.0)	11 (3.8)	8 (2.8)
GO:0009058 / Biosynthetic process	8 (3.4)	7 (2.8)	8 (3.2)	9 (3.1)	7 (3.3)
GO:0009056 / Catabolic process	6 (2.6)	7 (2.8)	6 (2.4)	8 (2.7)	6 (2.8)
GO:0006139 / Nucleobase-containing compound metabolic process	5 (2.1)	4 (1.6)	5 (2.0)	6 (2.1)	4 (1.9)
GO:0008219 / Cell Death	4 (1.7)	4 (1.6)	5 (2.0)	5 (1.7)	4 (1.9)
GO:0046903 / Secretion	4 (1.7)	4 (1.6)	5 (2.0)	5 (1.7)	4 (1.9)
GO:0051704 / Multi-organism process	4 (1.7)	4 (1.6)	6 (2.4)	5 (1.7)	4 (1.9)
GO:0006928 / Movement of cell or subcellular component	2 (0.9)	3 (1.2)	2 (0.8)	2 (0.7)	2 (0.9)
GO:0043062 / Extracellular structure organization	1 (0.4)	1 (0.4)	1 (0.4)	2 (0.7)	1 (0.5)
GO:0007610 / Behavior	1 (0.4)	1 (0.4)	1 (0.4)	1 (0.3)	1 (0.5)
Total annotations	234 (100)	253 (100)	251 (100)	291 (100)	212 (100)

SAN spring anovulatory, SOV spring ovulatory, SUM summer, FOV fall ovulatory