Table 4.

Classification of cloned small RNAs from P. olivaceus.

RNA species	Number present	% of Total clones
miRNAs shown in Table 5 a	29	20.28%
Novel miRNAs shown in Figure 4 b	4	2.80%
rRNA	21	14.68%
snoRNA	4	2.80%
Unidentifiedc	45	31.47%
Low quality or short sequencesd	40	27.97%
Total	143	100%

^aOnly miRNA candidates that match 100% to one of miRNAs in the miRBase database.

^bMiRNA candidates without 100% match to any miRNAs in the miRBase database, but with significant similarity

^cSequences do not match any known miRNAs or any other small RNAs or mRNAs.

^dLow-quality sequences and sequences less than 17 nucleotides were not analyzed further.