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Table 2 Lists of the ten most significant results from the gene ontology enrichment analyses between breeding adult and juvenile migrating willow warblers

From: Gene expression in the brain of a migratory songbird during breeding and migration

GO description

Adj P-value

Total

Observed (Expected)

positive regulation of gene expression

0.0084

40

13 (3)

calcium ion transport

0.04

30

10 (2)

translation

0.15

117

21 (9)

calcium ion transmembrane transport

0.19

20

7 (2)

structural constituent of ribosome

0.28

95

17 (7)

ribosome

0.28

98

17 (8)

RNA polymerase II regulatory region sequence-specific DNA binding

0.28

4

3 (0)

protein serine/threonine kinase activity

0.28

159

3 (12)

protein domain specific binding

0.28

41

9 (3)

regulation of mRNA stability

0.28

5

3 (0)

  1. .P-values are calculated from Fisher’s exact test and adjusted using FDR. ‘Total’ refer to all the genes included in that gene ontology term and ‘Observed’ is the number of genes found