| Dpf | Day post fertilization |
| Plf | Primary lens fiber cells |
| Slf | Secondary lens fiber cells |
| Ep | epithelial cell |
| PAM | protospacer adjacent motif |
| KEGG | Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes |
| DEGs | differentially expressed genes |
| FDR | false discovery rate |
| DAPI | 4′,6′-diamidine-2-phenylindole-dihydrochloride |
| WT | wild type |