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 11

Enrichment of functional categories of Gene Ontology among genes that responded to the supplement.

Functional groupDEG1Genes2 value3

Upregulated
Xenobiotic metabolic process51130.001
Arginine and proline metabolism61130.000
Heme binding102120.000
Iron ion binding82170.000
Lipid binding51890.039
Metallopeptidase activity61480.000
Monooxygenase activity8960.000
Antigen processing and presentation8880.000
Cell-matrix adhesion51570.012
Collagen71830.000
Downregulated
Cytoskeleton125390.008
Muscle contraction132450.000
Cytokine-mediated signaling pathway103560.002
Defense response to virus212320.000
Innate immune response186240.000
Neutrophil chemotaxis51020.001
Response to bacterium61980.013
Extracellular matrix72880.033

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