Fig. 1

The tissues used for construction of the rat miRNA body atlas and boxplots of the RIN values associated with the tissues from 5 male and 5 female Sprague Dawley rats are illustrated above. RNAs were extracted from rat tissues and were tested for RNA quality using the Agilent bioanalyzer. Most RNAs were of very high quality as judged by RIN values. Pancreas RNAs had the lowest RIN values and also had the fewest sequences that mapped to mature miRNAs