Table 4.

Differently expressed miRNAs and their candidate target genes.

miRNAs	Normalized Reads		Fold Change	Target Gene
	Sample 1	Sample 2
gga-miR-1329-5p	WRRh 459	WRRl 1582	0.29	EDNRB; WWP2
	WRRl 1582	XHl 174	9.07
gga-miR-1416-5p	XHh 5680	XHl 2721	2.09	CTGF; CXCL12
	WRRl 8061	XHl 2721	2.96
gga-miR-142-5p	WRRh 108,463	XHh 54,059	2.01	FOXO3; ITGA8
	WRRl 173,442	XHl 71,860	2.41
gga-miR-146b-3p	WRRl 5800	XHl 2404	2.41	TNNC1; AKT1; GHR
gga-miR-146b-5p	WRRl 191,004	XHl 71,169	2.68	–
gga-miR-147	WRRh 882	WRRl 2824	0.31	–
	WRRl 2824	XHl 928	3.04
gga-miR-155	WRRh 5205	WRRl 14,058	0.37	ACTA1; AKT1; EDNRA
	WRRh 5205	XHh 1759	2.96
	WRRl 14,058	XHl 2018	6.97
gga-miR-1744-3p	WRRh 2359	WRRl 740	3.19	TMOD1; EDN3
gga-miR-1769-3p	WRRh 377	WRRl 1120	0.34	DMD; BMP10
	WRRl 1120	XHl 498	2.25
gga-miR-184	WRRh 382	XHh 1735	0.22	COL11A1
gga-miR-194	WRRh 946	WRRl 4669	0.20	MYBPC3; GCG
	WRRh 946	XHh 1981	0.48
	WRRl 4669	XHl 1470	3.18
gga-miR-204	XHh 2762	XHl 5848	0.47	MYO6; PDGFRA; SOCS3
gga-miR-205a	WRRh 4900	WRRl 2281	2.15	CISH; IFNG
	WRRh 4900	XHh 2137	2.29
	WRRl 2281	XHl 940	2.43
gga-miR-21	WRRh 489,673	WRRl 1,060,669	0.46	CISH
	WRRl 1,060,669	XHl 360,267	2.94
gga-miR-222b-3p	WRRh 2477	WRRl 6641	0.37	ITGB1
	WRRh 2477	XHh 658	3.77
	WRRl 6641	XHl 791	8.40
gga-miR-223	WRRl 10,225	XHl 4004	2.55	MYH10; ADAM17; FOXO3
gga-miR-34b	XHh 41	XHl 1750	0.02	MYH10; BMP10
	WRRl 218	XHl 1750	0.12	STRAP; THY1
gga-miR-34c	XHh 41	XHl 1750	0.02	MYH7B; APP
	WRRl 218	XHl 1750	0.12	THY1; COL11A1; SOCS3; GCG
gga-miR-383	WRRh 373	1603	0.23	MYH7; APP; ITGA8
gga-miR-499	WRRl 1754	XHl 6084	0.29	ADAM17; FLNB
gga-miR-9-3p	XHh 82	XHl 1177	0.07	ACTG1
	WRRl 81	XHl 1177	0.07
gga-miR-9-5p	XHh 1036	XHl 3095	0.33	TGFB2

The miRNAs were both abundant (read counts > 1000) and highly differentially expressed (fold change > 2 or < 0.5; p-value < 0.05; q-value < 0.01) in our comparisons; the target genes were involved in growth related gene interaction networks.