Table 2.

siRNA population levels in the wild-type and various mutants.

Condition	siRNA length	Percent of siRNA population
		Wild-type	cna1Δ	cnb1Δ	gwo1Δ	puf4Δ
YPD	21-bp	7.30	4.08	3.48	8.06	5.57
	22-bp	15.15	8.02	6.66	15.30	10.02
	23-bp	8.58	5.40	4.55	8.02	5.34
	Total	31.03	17.50	14.69	31.38	20.93
5-FOA-1	21-bp	8.68	6.01	5.78	7.33	8.56
	22-bp	16.57	11.39	10.62	13.89	15.54
	23-bp	8.54	6.59	6.13	6.33	7.82
	Total	33.79	23.99	22.53	27.55	31.92
5-FOA-2	21-bp	9.69	6.52	5.94	8.68	9.65
	22-bp	17.85	12.47	11.19	17.14	16.88
	23-bp	8.86	7.29	6.32	8.04	7.07
	Total	36.40	26.28	23.45	33.86	33.60
Mean ± SEM of total siRNA/condition		33.74 ± 1.55	22.59 ± 2.63	20.22 ± 2.78	30.93 ± 1.84	28.81 ± 3.97
Significant; p-value (Compared to wild-type)			Yes; 0.011	Yes; 0.012	No; 0.278	No; 0.199