Table 2 Conservation of Euphorbiaceous miRNA families across 9 plant species – M. esculenta (mes), R. communis (rco), P. trichocarpa (ptc), M. truncatula (mtr), G. max (gma), A. thaliana (ath), V. vinifera (vvi), O. sativa (osa) and P. patens (ppt)

11

8

11

9

7

8

9

12

3

4

1

6

1

4

3

3

6

8

3

8

5

1

3

5

6

9

2

1

3

1

1

2

1

2

4

4

6

4

1

3

4

6

11

5

17

8

2

7

8

14

13

9

3

8

1

7

4

5

10

1

1

2

1

1

2

1

2

29

3

32

17

5

14

25

17

11

7

14

7

3

3

9

9

2

6

1

9

1

6

5

4

4

8

4

9

2

3

3

5

2

5

3

2

4

1

2

2

1

1

3

4

1

4

2

1

2

2

2

3

2

2

2

2

3

1

5

5

10

18

3

6

14

25

1

6

1

7

2

5

2

4

9

2

1

3

2

2

1

2

1

2

3

3

2

3

3

2

7

6

12

17

6

9

11

2

2

3

2

1

6

2

1

1

1

4

1

1

1

2

9

1

2

1

8

1

4

1

5

1

2

1

2

2

1

3

1

3

1

4

1

1

1

1

3

2

2

2

2

1

2

1

1

5

2

1

19

1

2

1

1

1

1

1

1

2

2

1