Table 1.

Summary of parasitic helminth species for which microRNA sequence data is available.

Parasite species	Developmental stage	References
Ascaris suum	Germline, zygote, embryo, L1, L2	Wang et al. (2011)
	Male and female adults	Xu et al. (2013)
Brugia malayi	Mixed stage (males, females, mf)	Poole et al. (2010)
Brugia pahangi	Mixed sex adults, L3	Winter et al. (2012)
Haemonchus contortus	Mixed sex adults, L3	Winter et al. (2012)
Trichinella spiralis	Muscle stage larvae	Chen et al. (2011a)
Angiostrongylus cantonensis	Male and female adults	Chen et al. (2011b)
	Young adults	Chang et al. (2013)
Bursaphelenchus xylophilus	Mixed stages of different isolates	Huang et al. (2010)
Schistosoma japonicum	Mixed sex adults, schistosomula	Huang et al. (2009)
	Cercariae, schistsomula,	Cai et al. (2011)
	Male and female adults	Cai et al. (2013)
	Eggs
S. mansoni	Mixed sex adults	Simoes et al. (2011)
	Male and female adults	Marco et al. (2013)
Echinococcus granulosis	Protoscolex	Cucher et al. (2011)
Taenia saginata	Adult worms	Ai et al. (2012)
Clonorchis sinensis	Adult worms	Xu et al. (2010)