Author Contributions:
Conceived and designed the experiments: Kailai Cai, Yuliang Liu and Rou Hou. Performed the experiments: Kailai Cai, Jiasong Chen, Feiping Li, Shenfei Wang, Mengshi Zhang, Xianbiao Hu, He Huang, Junhui An, Donghui Wang, Hairui Wang. Analyzed the data: Tao Wang. Contributed to writing the manuscript: Tao Wang, Kailai Cai and Ayala James.
Funding: This study was conducted by the Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Research Foundation (CPF2017-17).
Data Availability Statement: The mass spectrometry proteomics data have been deposited to the ProteomeXchange Consortium (http://proteomecentral.proteomexchange.org) via the iProX partner repository (Chen et al., 2022; Ma et al., 2019) with the dataset identifier PXD044374.
Conflicts of Interest: The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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Figure 1. The Venn diagram displayed the annotation results of the identified proteins in four databases (A), B and C showing the GO and IPR annotations, respectively. The bar represents the number of proteins.
Figure 2. The COG (A)and KEGG (B) annotation of detected seminal plasma proteins. The bar represents the number of proteins.
Figure 3. The GO (A) and KEGG (B) annotation of panda seminal plasma proteins and three other species (human, pig, sheep). (C) and (D) represent the GO and KEGG annotation of panda-specific seminal plasma proteins compared to three other species, The results of IPR analysis have also been presented simultaneously (E).
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