Figure 6From: Evolutionary conserved microRNAs are ubiquitously expressed compared to tick-specific miRNAs in the cattle tick Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplusMutational profile of R. microplus miRNAs as compared to ancestral sequences. The percentage of nucleotide substitutions from positions 1 to 23 are show for A) subsets of miRNAs defined in Figure 5B; B) unique R. microplus miRNA variants subsets as defined in the text; and C) miRNA* sequences showing similar mutational profiles to their mature counterparts with the exception of rmi-miR-iab-4-3p.Back to article page