Fig 2. Conservation analysis of 79 miRNA famililes within 33 species.

Conservation analysis of the 79 miRNA families identified from the sRNA library of G. molesta was conducted among 33 species belonging to the three phyla, Arthropoda, Nematoda and Chordata. The miRNA information of the other 32 species was retrieved from the miRBase. Colored box indicated the presence of the conserved miRNA family and the same color indicated species belonging to the same order of insect in Hexapoda, the same class in Arthropoda except for the Hexapoda species, C. elegans in Nematoda, and Homo sampiens in Chordata. The phylogenetic tree was constructed according to previous reports [48,49].