| FAT | fat body |
| OVA | ovary |
| L | long photoperiod |
| S | short photperiod |
| DEGs | differentially expressed genes |
| vs | versus |
| FDR | false discovery rate |
| BLAST | basic local alignment search tool |
| GO | Gene Ontology |
| KEGG | Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes |
| KO | KEGG Ortholog database |
| KOG/COG | Clusters of Orthologous Groups of proteins |
| NR | NCBI non-redundant protein sequences |
| NT | NCBI nucleotide sequences |
| Pfam | protein families |
| Swiss-Prot | a manually annotated and reviewed protein sequence database |
| TCA cycle | tricarboxylic acid cycle |
| fpps | farnesyl diphosphate synthase |
| JHamt | juvenile hormone acid O-methyltransferase |
| SOD | superoxide dismutase |
| PGM | phosphoglucomutase |
| GAPDH | glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase |
| ADH | alcohol dehydrogenase |
| MDH | malate dehydrogenase |
| INSR | insulin receptor |
| IRS | insulin receptor substrate |
| EGFR | endothelial growth factor receptor |
| COX | cytochrome c oxidase |
| ND | NADH dehydrogenase |
| DR | diapause rate |
| foxo | foxo gene |
| FOXO | FOXO protein |