Research Article

Dietary Fish Meal Level and a Package of Choline, β-Glucan, and Nucleotides Modulate Gut Function, Microbiota, and Health in Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar, L.)

Table 10

Enrichment of functional categories of Gene Ontology among genes that showed an association between expression profiles and FM level (diets with supplements were not included in analysis).

Functional groupDEG1Genes2 value3

Upregulated
Glutathione metabolism13780.0
Xenobiotic metabolic process171130.0
Glycine serine and threonine metabolism7670.001
Lysine degradation6620.004
Valine leucine and isoleucine degradation7730.002
Tryptophan metabolism12690.0
Glycerolipid metabolism6760.017
Mitochondrion6714850.0
Retinol metabolism12830.0
Steroid metabolic process8670.0
Heme binding112120.040
Iron ion binding162170.0
Metallocarboxypeptidase activity7270.0
Lysosome263630.0
Chemokine activity6570.002
Lymphocyte chemotaxis6380.0
Epithelial cell differentiation9940.0
Downregulated
Chromatin binding155780.029
DNA replication91960.001
G1/S transition of mitotic cell cycle51260.048
Mismatch repair5490.0
Cadherin binding155330.012
ECM-receptor interaction101610.0
Extracellular matrix structural constituent82220.016
Focal adhesion103450.040
Collagen91830.0

1Number of differentially expressed genes per term. 2Number of genes on the microarray platform. 3Yates’ corrected chi-test.