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Table 3 Changes in tick miRNA expression between tick eggs and larvae.

From: Evolutionary conserved microRNAs are ubiquitously expressed compared to tick-specific miRNAs in the cattle tick Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus

miRNA

Eggs (E)

Larvae (L)

L/E ratio

rmi-miR-133

1

525

404.3

rmi-miR-87

3

1,385

355.6

rmi-miR-5308

23

9,115

305.2

rmi-miR-10

11

4,184

292.9

rmi-miR-252

1

354

272.6

rmi-miR-124

31

8,806

218.8

rmi-miR-184

132

36,552

213.3

rmi-miR-bantam

10

2,746

211.5

rmi-miR-1

2,242

602,619

207.0

rmi-miR-276a

43

9,443

169.1

rmi-miR-34

26

4,494

133.1

rmi-miR-263

58

9,836

130.6

  1. Selected miRNAs showing statistically significant up-regulation are shown in bold (P < 9.61E-06). The L/E expression ratio was calculated using normalized read per million counts for each miRNA. Complete list of miRNAs and statistics are shown in Additional file 6.
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