| H | high-yielding strains DZAC-Wp-H-29 |
| L | low-yielding strains DZAC-Wp-L-123 |
| HMGCR | hydroxymethyl glutaryl- coenzyme A reductase |
| FDPS | farnesyl-diphosphate synthase |
| COQ2 | 4-hydroxybenzoate polyprenyltransferase |
| ERG2 | C-8 sterol isomerase |
| ACAT | sterol O-acyltransferase |
| TAT | tyrosine aminotransferase |
| CAO2 | carotenoid oxygenase |
| erg26 | sterol-4alpha-carboxylate 3-dehydrogenase |
| Pm20d2 | peptidase M20 domain-containing protein 2 |
| norA | aryl-alcohol dehydrogenase |
| adh | GroES-like protein |
| ftmP450-1 | cytochrome P450 |
| GHs | glycosyl hydrolases |
| CEs | carbohydrate esterases |
| AAs | auxiliary activities |
| CBMs | carbohydrate - binding modules |
| GTs | glycosyltransferases |
| PLs | polysaccharide lyases |
| SSR | simple sequence repetition |
| MVD | diphosphomevalonate decarboxylase |
| ERG7 | lanosterol synthase |
| LSD | least-significant difference |
| DEGs | differentially expressed genes |
| RPKM | Read Per kb per Million Reads |
| PCA | principal component analysis |
| FDR | false discovery rate |
| qPCR | real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction |
| GO | Gene Ontology |
| KEGG | Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes |
| HMG-CoA | 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A |
| CAD5 | heat shock protein |
| CoQ | ubiquinone |
| erg11 | lanosterol 14-alpha-demethylase |
| SQLE | squalene monooxygenase |
| FPP | farnesyl diphosphate |
| IPP | isopentenyl diphosphate |
| DMAPP | dimethylallyl diphosphate |
| ERG9 | farnesyl-diphosphate farnesyltransferase |
| RIN | RNA integrity number |
| Nr | non-redundant protein |
| NAD+ | oxidized form of nicotinamide adenine dinucleoside |
| NADP+ | oxidized form of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate |
| FAD | flavin-adenine dinucleotide |
| PDA | potato dextrose agar |
| COG/KOG | Cluster of Orthologous Groups of proteins |
| NCBI | the National Center for Biotechnology Information |