| COG | Clusters of orthologous groups of proteins |
| DEGs | Differentially expressed genes |
| FPKM | Fragments per kilobase of transcript per million fragments mapped |
| KEGG | Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes |
| KOG | Eukaryotic Clusters of Orthologous Groups |
| MISA | MIcroSAtellite identification Single nucleotide polymorphisms |
| Nr | Non-redundant protein sequence database |
| ORF | Open reading frame |
| SSR | Simple sequence repeats |
| STEM | Short time-series expression miner |
| TFs | Transcription factors |
| TrEMBL | Translated European molecular biology laboratory |