Table 1.

The most abundant miRNAs in chicken skeletal muscles as determined using deep sequencing

miRNA ID	Layer	Broiler	B/L	Studies related to skeletal muscle
gga-miR-206	222998	131609	0.59	[20-22]
gga-let-7c	32663	87111	2.67
gga-miR-103	59224	37050	0.63	[19]
gga-let-7j	26141	42513	1.63
gga-let-7f	24694	16121	0.65
gga-miR-221	18238	5340	0.29	[33,84]
gga-miR-107	10815	10353	0.96	[85]
gga-miR-130a	2630	10933	4.16	[19]
gga-let-7b	4832	8155	1.69
gga-miR-128	5059	6669	1.32	[15]
gga-miR-130b	1409	9002	6.39	[19]
gga-miR-222	3735	4013	1.07	[33,84]
gga-miR-16c	1209	6058	5.01	[39]
gga-miR-15b	875	5759	6.58
gga-miR-125b	1506	4801	3.19	[40]
gga-miR-21	1056	5128	4.86	[19,39,86]
gga-miR-101	3647	1305	0.36
gga-miR-181a	2015	2543	1.26	[24,85]
gga-miR-130c	795	2872	3.61	[19]
gga-miR-99a	1589	1561	0.98	[19,87]
gga-miR-1a	979	1495	1.53	[19]
gga-miR-456	1601	592	0.37
gga-miR-148a	1180	738	0.63
gga-miR-30a-3p	1189	422	0.35	[19]
gga-miR-146c	1067	309	0.29	[88,89]
gga-miR-460	307	914	2.98
gga-miR-181b	421	795	1.89	[24]
gga-miR-10a	890	269	0.30	[41]
gga-miR-20b	210	940	4.48	[19]
gga-miR-15c	91	1038	11.4
gga-let-7i	479	632	1.32
gga-let-7k	506	602	1.19
gga-miR-383	886	219	0.25