Table 2.

Number of Gene Ontology (GO) analysis identified white‐tailed deer transcripts with a cutoff E‐value of <1e⁻⁶ and corresponding protein length greater than 100, successfully mapped to cellular component, biological process, and molecular function classifications

GO number	Classification	No. of transcriptsa
Cellular component
GO:0005623	Cell	27,177
GO:0043226	Organelle	21,631
GO:0016020	Membrane	11,980
GO:0032991	Macromolecular complex	9,618
GO:0031974	Membrane‐enclosed lumen	5,757
GO:0005576	Extracellular region	2,021
Biological process
GO:0009987	Cellular process	27,280
GO:0008152	Metabolic process	24,872
GO:0044699	Single‐organism process	22,464
GO:0065007	Biological regulation	16,474
GO:0050896	Response to stimulus	11,215
GO:0071840	Cellular component organization or biogenesis	8,501
GO:0051179	Localization	8,496
GO:0023052	Signaling	7,363
GO:0032501	Multicellular organismal process	7,242
GO:0032502	Developmental process	6,538
GO:0002376	Immune system process	3,473
GO:0051704	Multi‐organism process	2,741
GO:0040011	Locomotion	1,799
GO:0022610	Biological adhesion	1,762
GO:0022414	Reproductive process	1,165
GO:0040007	Growth	1,157
Molecular function
GO:0005488	Binding	24,330
GO:0003824	Catalytic activity	16,073
GO:0098772	Molecular function regulator	1,982
GO:0005215	Transporter activity	1,914
GO:0060089	Molecular transducer activity	1,804
GO:0001071	Nucleic acid binding transcription factor activity	1,391
GO:0005198	Structural molecule activity	1,138

^aReporting of GO terms was limited to those with ≥1,000 assigned transcripts.