Song exposure regulates known and novel microRNAs in the zebra finch auditory forebrain

BMC Genomics

Table 1 Summary statistics for the read alignments

		Male silence	Male song	Female silence	Female song	Mix silence	Mix song
Total Reads		2,704,778	2,056,391	3,173,108	3,546,038	3,962,050	4,738,528
Total Usable Reads		1,179,330	1,155,168	2,244,376	2,498,648	2,249,188	2,950,398
Reads aligning with	Total	401,934	209,944	1,638,528	1,755,748	1,348,109	2,113,006
known miRNA	Fraction	34%	18%	73%	70%	60%	72%

Six different pools of auditory forebrain were analyzed independently by Illumina small RNA sequencing, as described in the text.

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