Discovery of barley miRNAs through deep sequencing of short reads

BMC Genomics

Table 1 Data sources for evidence of expression of known miRNAs

Species	Reference	Tissues	Platform	Comments
Rice^a	Sunkar et al. 2008 [31]	Seedlings	454, 18 K unique reads	control, droughted and salt stressed
Rice^a	Zhu et al. 2008 [17]	7-day old shoots & roots, grain	454, 77 K unique reads; grain also with Solexa, 1.9 M unique reads
Rice^a	Xue et al. 2009 [32]	seeds	MPSS, 0.1 M unique reads
Wheat^b	Yao et al. 2007 [14]	leaves, root, spikes	454, 25 K unique reads
Wheat	Wei et al. 2009 [33]	leaves, stem, root, young spikes	Solexa, 0.5 M unique reads
Brachypodium	Wei et al. 2009 [33]	root, stem, leaves, spikes	Solexa, 0.6 M unique reads
Barley	This study	leaf	Solexa, 3.6 M unique reads

^aOnly rice miRNAs that are also listed in miRBase (V13.0, March 2009) were included in the analysis; miRBase names were used.
^bSequences from this reference as corrected in miRBase (c.f. miR164a and miR159b) were used; similarly, for miR501-515 and miR517-524 the revised names miR1117-1139 provided by miRBase were used.

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