Characterization of bovine miRNAs by sequencing and bioinformatics analysis

BMC Molecular Biology

Table 1 An overview of sequencing results from 11 small RNA libraries

	Cer	Hyp	Med	LDM	Asf	Bsf	Rsf	Liv	Kid	Spl	Thy	Total
Sequences of reported bovine miRNAs	975	786	927	488	1238	1089	1308	1267	1080	882	1149	11189
Sequences of orthologs of known miRNAs	144	140	160	492	81	67	43	50	82	220	99	1578
Sequences of novel miRNA candidates	6	8	6	1	10	5	13	8	16	6	23	102
Sequences of other small RNAs	37	66	139	62	46	51	24	71	53	84	39	672
Overall sequences	1162	1000	1232	1043	1375	1212	1388	1396	1231	1192	1310	13541
Reported bovine miRNAs	62	46	47	44	57	49	42	54	66	60	68	101
Orthologs of known miRNAs	39	30	31	26	20	14	17	18	33	29	30	98
Novel miRNA candidates	6	5	6	1	3	3	4	3	6	4	3	29
Overall miRNAs	107	81	84	71	80	66	63	75	105	93	101	228

Eleven tissues from beef cattle were used for libraries construction. Library was named as abbreviated tissue name (detail see abbreviation).

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