Table 2. The effect of parental post-embryonic nicotine exposure on miRNA expression levels in L4 worms belonging to the F2 generation. (* and β denote p-values<0.05 in comparison to control).

	F2 Low		F2 High
	P value	MFC ± SE	P value	MFC ± SE
*miR1	0.636	0.24 ± 0.44	0.005	2.00 ± 0.35
*miR1828	0.841	0.06 ± 0.26	0.046	−0.46 ± 0.10
*miR2212St	0.696	0.10 ± 0.23	0.001	0.50 ± 0.02
*miR2218a	0.843	0.07 ± 0.33	0.013	0.96 ± 0.11
*miR2220	0.137	−0.40 ± 0.17	0.001	0.75 ± 0.09
β*miR232	0.000	−0.61 ± 0.05	0.015	−0.59 ± 0.07
*miR235	0.003	0.64 ± 0.10	0.921	0.03 ± 0.27
β*miR239a	0.006	−0.57 ± 0.11	0.000	−0.69 ± 0.05
β*miR240	0.012	−0.61 ± 0.07	0.001	−0.59 ± 0.02
β*miR244	0.000	−1.00 ± 0.00	0.000	−1.00 ± 0.00
βmiR255	0.009	−0.50 ± 0.05	0.970	0.00 ± 0.11
βmiR51	0.043	0.55 ± 0.19	0.435	0.29 ± 0.29
β*miR53	0.000	−1.00 ± 0.00	0.000	−1.00 ± 0.00
βmiR790	0.041	0.48 ± 0.16	0.054	0.35 ± 0.08
β*miR80	0.027	0.81 ± 0.14	0.035	0.57 ± 0.11
*miR800	0.110	0.38 ± 0.14	0.049	0.52 ± 0.19