| LS | litter size |
| LG | low-yield group |
| HG | high-yield group |
| FP | follicular phase |
| LP | luteal phase |
| PSGs | positively selected genes |
| DEGs | differentially expressed genes |
| GO | gene ontology |
| KEGG | Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes |
| ko | KEGG ontology |
| YSD | Yunshang black goats for DNA sequencing |
| YSR | Yunshang black goats for mRNA sequencing |
| FIN | Finnsheep |
| ROM | Romanov sheep |
| STH | Small Tailed Han sheep |
| Fst_RMS | root mean square of fixation index (Fst) |
| nSL | number of segregating sites by length |