Table 3. Novel miRNA candidates differentially represented between morphs and/or developmental stages in the small-RNA-seq data.

Name	Expressed	SB1	SB2	SB3	SB4	AC1	AC2	AC3	AC4
sal-nov_1	Morph/Time	7	4	1	1	17	31	25	10
sal-nov_2	Morph	8	13	16	9	104	89	151	88
sal-nov_3	Morph	34	78	63	17	0	0	0	0
sal-nov_4	Morph	0	0	0	0	13076	5397	5755	560
sal-nov_5	Morph/Time	0	0	0	0	1800	563	343	0
sal-nov_6	Morph	47	9	14	18	73	58	23	28
sal-nov_7	Morph	25	5	1	9	48	45	14	5
sal-nov_8	Morph	207	168	20	7	256	117	47	71
sal-nov_9	Morph	130	59	13	54	268	361	173	70
sal-nov_10	Morph	16	6	12	10	45	53	52	25
sal-nov_11	Morph	8	13	16	9	104	89	151	88
sal-nov_12	Morph	8	12	13	6	14	17	15	6
sal-nov_13	Morph	21	44	112	133	113	110	236	308
sal-nov_14	Morph	2	32	31	53	27	25	96	103
sal-nov_15	Morph	3	22	32	31	6	7	8	10
sal-nov_16	Morph	644	1472	1725	983	966	648	944	1011
sal-nov_17	Morph	24	30	27	2	65	41	69	50
sal-nov_18	Morph/Time	13	89	121	372	3	11	17	219
sal-nov_19	Morph	8	4	9	0	207	63	107	15
sal-nov_20	Time	70	274	967	5358	128	213	988	6078
sal-nov_21	Time	3472	7090	12625	26369	5005	4127	10188	20766
sal-nov_22	Time	121	107	56	1	206	71	26	0

Included are miRNA names, differential expression and number of raw reads per stage per morph.