Figure 2
From: Target mimics: an embedded layer of microRNA-involved gene regulatory networks in plants
Sequence conservation analysis of the sequestered microRNAs. (A) Analysis of the first 15-nt sequences at the 5’ ends of all the sequestered microRNAs in Arabidopsis. (B) Analysis of the first 15-nt sequences at the 5’ ends of all the sequestered microRNAs in rice. (C) Analysis of the last 15-nt sequences at the 3’ ends of all the sequestered microRNAs in Arabidopsis. (D) Analysis of the last 15-nt sequences at the 3’ ends of all the sequestered microRNAs in rice. For (A) to (D), all the miRBase-registered microRNAs (release 17) excluding the sequestered microRNAs of Arabidopsis and rice were treated as the control sets, and the results are shown in the lower panels of (A) to (D). All the sequences were analyzed from the 5’ ends to the 3’ ends. The analysis was performed by using WebLogo 3 (http://weblogo.threeplusone.com/) [18, 19].