Table 4.

Top 20 expressed microRNAs (miRNAs) in chicken ceca in all treatment groups.

miRNA name	Total number of reads	Ratioa
		All samples (%)	NC group (%)	S group (%)	SP group (%)	P group (%)
miR-215-5p	68917434	40.54	43.57	42.47	33.68	42.12
miR-10b-5p	13186219	7.76	7.56	7.24	9.67	6.76
miR-21-5p	11519323	6.78	5.75	6.43	8.09	6.80
miR-26a-5p	10931445	6.43	6.36	6.43	6.91	6.08
miR-22-3p	10803319	6.35	5.80	6.10	7.02	6.47
miR-10a-5p	4743039	2.79	2.65	2.63	3.23	2.67
miR-148a-3p	4079948	2.40	2.26	2.36	2.72	2.28
miR-194	3999556	2.35	2.55	2.52	1.94	2.39
miR-92-3p	3254438	1.91	1.92	1.88	1.94	1.91
miR-30d	3206318	1.89	1.8	1.78	2.02	1.94
miR-181a-5p	3106586	1.83	1.79	1.85	1.98	1.71
miR-429-3p	2497698	1.47	1.38	1.39	1.54	1.55
let-7f-5p	2310212	1.36	1.33	1.31	1.49	1.31
miR-30a-5p	1651325	0.97	0.93	0.97	1.05	0.94
miR-133a-3p	1586620	0.93	0.90	0.94	1.02	0.89
miR-199-3p	1430584	0.84	0.81	0.82	0.95	0.80
miR-30c-5p	1419796	0.84	0.84	0.77	0.84	0.88
miR-200a-3p	1229985	0.72	0.69	0.68	0.77	0.75
miR-126-5p	1190078	0.70	0.67	0.69	0.77	0.67
miR-27b-3p	1075489	0.63	0.52	0.61	0.75	0.64
Total for the above	152139412	89.16	90.08	89.87	88.38	89.57

^aThe ratio refers to the total number of reads of a miRNA as compared to all detected reads of known chicken miRNAs (miRBase Release 21.0).