Table 4.

Top 20 most highly expressed known and novel miRNAs across all 20 pre- and post-feed milk samples with the total reads, and the number of samples that each miRNA was detected in.

	Known miRNA	Number of Reads	Number of Samples Detected in (n = 20)	Novel miRNA	Number of Reads	Number of Samples Detected in (n = 20)
1	hsa-let-7f-5p	25,479,884	20	novel_mir_7	3890	13
2	hsa-miR-181a-5p	21,601,482	20	novel_mir_299	942	19
3	hsa-miR-148a-3p	14,925,495	20	novel_mir_367	804	17
4	hsa-miR-22-3p	12,999,002	20	novel_mir_39	789	20
5	hsa-miR-182-5p	11,288,364	20	novel_mir_115	760	17
6	hsa-let-7a-5p	10,343,580	20	novel_mir_476	658	4
7	hsa-miR-375	9,145,308	20	novel_mir_90	586	17
8	hsa-miR-141-3p	8,577,962	20	novel_mir_41	341	12
9	hsa-miR-30a-5p	7,844,936	20	novel_mir_269	322	15
10	hsa-miR-30d-5p	6,173,556	20	novel_mir_161	295	9
11	hsa-miR-146b-5p	4,140,259	20	novel_mir_278	247	14
12	hsa-miR-26a-5p	3,876,162	20	novel_mir_76	222	13
13	hsa-miR-21-5p	3,457,523	20	novel_mir_430	194	14
14	hsa-let-7i-5p	2,264,279	20	novel_mir_144	189	3
15	hsa-miR-92a-3p	1,918,918	20	novel_mir_456	178	9
16	hsa-miR-27b-3p	1,849,454	20	novel_mir_202	174	12
17	hsa-miR-181b-5p	1,594,211	20	novel_mir_159	173	12
18	hsa-miR-423-5p	1,374,443	20	novel_mir_411	169	11
19	hsa-miR-125a-5p	1,260,164	20	novel_mir_251	156	8
20	hsa-miR-10a-5p	1,145,612	20	novel_mir_425	154	7