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Table 5 Changes in tick miRNA expression between adult female and male ticks.

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

miRNA

Female (F)

Male (M)

F/M ratio

rmi-miR-2001

2,953

271

10.44

rmi-miR-8

3,578

429

7.98

rmi-miR-12

3,275

423

7.40

rmi-miR-71

6,483

1,014

6.13

rmi-miR-315

8,471

1,350

6.01

rmi-let-7

47,957

8,650

5.31

rmi-miR-125

1,436

267

5.14

rmi-miR-1

872,047

298,763

2.80

rmi-miR-276a

7,574

2,689

2.70

rmi-miR-275

6,800

2,749

2.37

rmi-miR-5305

195

87

2.15

rmi-miR-100

2,403

1,937

1.19

rmi-miR-310/miR-92

446

700

0.61

rmi-miR-279

1,772

3,103

0.55

rmi-miR-bantam

1,550

2,738

0.54

rmi-miR-133

80

322

0.24

  1. Selected miRNAs showing statistically significant up-regulation are shown in bold (P < 9.62E-05). The F/M ratios were calculated using normalized reads per million counts for each miRNA. Complete list of miRNAs and statistics are shown in Additional file 9.