Table 1.
The number of published hairpin precursor and mature miRNA sequences in selected model organisms
| Hairpin precursor loci | Mature miR sequencesa | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total number | Clustered ≤10 kb from another miRNA | Overlap annotated transcripts | Distinct forms | Experimentally verified | |
| Homo sapiens | 533 | 190 (36%) | 267 (50%) | 555 | 546 (98%) |
| Mus musculus | 442 | 199 (45%) | 174 (39%) | 461 | 455 (99%) |
| Danio rerio | 337 | 151 (34%) | 41 (12%) | 193 | 183 (95%) |
| Caenorhabditis elegans | 135 | 34 (25%) | 23 (17%) | 135 | 135 (100%) |
| Drosophila melanogaster | 93 | 34 (36%) | 36 (39%) | 88 | 85 (97%) |
| Arabidopsis thaliana | 184 | 19 (10%) | 16 (9%) | 199 | 199 (100%) |
| Populus trichocarpa | 215 | 42 (20%) | 9 (4%) | 215 | 55 (26%) |
amiR* sequences are excluded from the mature miRNA count.