Fig. 8

An overview of possible biological changes that might contribute to low milk production in cows fed corn stover-based diet vs. cows fed alfalfa hay-based diet. The color coding for the individual genes is as follows: black letters and pink background represents the up-regulated genes, yellow letters and pink background represents increased proteins, black letters and green background represents the down-regulated genes, and blue letters and green background represents decreased proteins. The half blue/half black letters with green background represents genes that were both down-regulated at mRNA and protein levels. The half black/half yellow letters with pink background represent the genes that were up-regulated at both protein and gene levels. The full name of each protein is listed in Additional file 6: Table S9