| COE | Carboxylesterase |
| RNAi | RNA interference |
| FPKM | Fragments per kilobase of transcript per million fragments mapped |
| NJ | Neighbor-joining |
| JTT | Jones–Taylor–Thornton |
| dsRNA | Double-strand RNA |
| EGFP | Enhanced green fluorescent protein |
| JH | Juvenile hormone |
| JHE | Juvenile hormone esterase |
| qRT-PCR | Quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction |
| AAAP | Amino acid/auxin permease |
| P450 | Cytochrome P450 monooxygenase |
| GST | Glutathione S-transferase |
| ABC | ATP-binding cassette transporter |
| mtCOI | Mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I |
| HMM | Hidden Markov model |
| NCBI | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
| EST | Expressed sequence tag |