Table 3.

The top 30 miRNA families expressed at highest levels in P. aphrodite

Family/library	miRNA expression levels (reads per million, RPM)
	Root	Leaf	Flower	Seed
miR159	40,458.60	114,828.36	83,771.72	31,884.38
miR528	3,583.11	87,059.25	15,639.47	70,731.99
miR535	47,988.38	41,264.12	14,482.89	7,607.86
miR156	2,340.83	595.61	81.66	32,722.32*
miR166	1,788.48	1,918.84	3,940.71	1,489.36
miR162	2,409.82	3,217.41	1,521.87	423.24
miR171	29.11	1,872.34	3,181.79	651.13
miR167	1,683.43	3,355.12	124.03	190.67
miR319	991.71	366.55	1,967.85	1,280.60
miR396	612.74	2,577.08*	235.45	108.16
miR894	1,474.60	891.75	404.37	234.64
miR164	678.36	219.74	535.33	45.58
miR408	39.56	619.38	285.27	227.61
miR168	273.53	215.00	211.21	66.78
miR5139	219.22	232.77	151.62	125.79
miR529	48.88	8.00	80.77	54.74
miR172	1.72	46.86	147.52*	1.15
miR397	4.43	69.52	28.79	46.73
miR2950	47.16	50.86	49.07	1.04
miR394	5.82	10.59	25.73	14.87
miR398	1.19	38.72*	6.79	2.02
miR160	5.95	14.51	22.45	2.19
miR165	9.59	7.26	12.31	1.61
miR858	0.33	0.07	24.09*	0.12
miR783	6.48	8.96	4.03	0.63
miR2911	8.14*	0.52	1.34	2.25
miR1318	1.98	2.74	7.91	0.46
miR395	0.13	1.92	9.99*	0.58
miR399	0.99	5.55	0.60	2.48
miR3946	5.16	2.37	0.15	0.69

The closer the SPM is to 1 the greater the extent of tissue specificity

* Specificity measure (SPM) >0.9