“…The use of large transcriptomic analysis (i.e., microarray or RNA sequencing) by which to study the adaptation of mammary gland to lactation and/or change in milk production under specific conditions has been carried out in mouse (4,54,122,123,143,189,191,217,236,256), rat (3,47,187), bovine (31,36,56,75,96,144,183,209,218,233,239), sheep (209), goat (71,163,164), human (121,139,147), pig (204), kangaroo (120), and seal (144). It is beyond the scope of the current review to present a thorough discussion of the results from those studies.…”