| DEGs | Differentially expressed genes |
| SLC | Solute carrier |
| CATs | Cationic amino acid transports |
| BWG | Body weight gain |
| FCR | Feed conversion ratio |
| FI | Feed intake |
| FDR | False discovery rate |
| GO | Gene ontology |
| KEGG | Kyoto encyclopedia of genes and genomes |
| qRT-PCR | Quantitative real-time PCR |
| IPA | Ingenuity pathway analysis |
| RNA-Seq | RNA sequencing |
| FPKM | Fragments per kilobase of exon per million fragments |