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Table 4 Exposure to host triggers changes in cattle tick miRNA expression.

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

miRNA

Larvae (L)

Frustrated larvae (FL)

FL/L ratio

rmi-miR-5315

2,368

0

0.00

rmi-miR-317

178

16

0.13

rmi-miR-315

4,293

482

0.16

rmi-miR-87

1,384

193

0.19

rmi-miR5306

566

93

0.22

rmi-miR-5314

66

18

0.38

rmi-miR-993

690

214

0.43

rmi-miR-124

8,807

2,872

0.45

rmi-miR-5312

295

98

0.46

rmi-miR-5309

231

99

0.59

rmi-miR-5310

3,949

2,643

0.92

rmi-miR-5308

9,115

9,335

1.42

rmi-miR-184

36,552

51,481

1.94

rmi-miR-10

4,183

6,527

2.15

rmi-miR-5307

115

235

2.83

rmi-miR-96

412

882

2.96

rmi-miR-79*

1,283

3,746

4.03

rmi-miR-9a

1,541

5,835

5.23

rmi-miR-190

147

588

5.49

rmi-miR-279

1,429

5,919

5.72

  1. Selected miRNAs showing statistically significant up-regulation are shown in bold (P < 9.62E-05). The FL/L expression ratio was calculated using normalized read per million counts for each miRNA. Complete list of miRNAs and statistics are shown in Additional file 8.