Figure 2.

Tissue expression pattern of 35 novel ncRNA candidates. The expression pattern of 35 novel ncRNA candidates was examined by northern blot analysis of total RNA from chicken heart, liver, lung, spleen, kidney, intestine, skeletal muscles and brain. Total RNA from human and mouse skeletal muscle were included in each blot in order to test for possible expression of the ncRNA candidates in different species. The ncRNA candidates are labeled as GgnX_class_size on the left of each northern blot. (For example: Ggn37_CD_70 nt means Ggn37 is a predicted C/D box snoRNA with length 70 nt. ‘Un’ denotes ‘unclassified’.) Asterisks indicate that ncRNAs were independently predicted by Qu’s group (23).