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. 2017 Jul 14;7:5462. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-05561-0

Figure 7.

Figure 7

Comparison of the number of predicted cleavage targets for lowly expressed and highly expressed miRNAs. Boxplots show the number of predicted cleavage targets for miRNAs with low expression (<500 CPM) and high expression (≥500 CPM) identified in the AGO3-pulldown libraries from C. reinhardtii (blue) and for species-specific or conserved miRNAs from Arabidopsis thaliana (red) or Arabidopsis lyrata (green). Conserved miRNAs are shared between A. thaliana and A. lyrata and many have experimentally validated roles. MicroRNAs that had no predicted targets were excluded from this plot. The average number of targets (including outliers) and the sample size for each category are shown above the boxes. The target numbers were compared between the two expression-level groups for each species and an asterisk next to the species abbreviation indicates a significant difference (p < 0.05 by Wilcoxon rank sum test).