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Table 2 Distribution of candidate DT genes among biological process GO terms.

From: Identifying candidate genes affecting developmental time in Drosophila melanogaster: pervasive pleiotropy and gene-by-environment interaction

Biological process GO terms

% of genes

Cellular metabolic process

57.9

Multicellular organismal development

39.5

Macromolecule metabolic process

36.8

Anatomical structure development

34.2

Regulation of biological process

31.6

Cellular developmental process

31.6

Cell communication

29.0

Biosynthetic process

23.7

Cellular component organization and biogenesis

18.4

Sexual reproduction

18.4

Establishment of localization

18.4

Nitrogen compound metabolic process

10.5

Behavior

10.5

Response to stress

10.5

Cell proliferation

10.5

Cell adhesion

10.5

Cell cycle

7.9

  1. Genes are distributed in a non-exclusive manner (i.e. a given gene might be associated to more than one GO term, see text for more details). The percentage of genes related to each GO term is shown.