Table 3.

Number of predicted target genes of conserved and novel miRNAs and novel miRNA precursor candidates. Each entry in the row labeled “Novel miRNAs No.” refers to the total number of novel miRNAs followed by the number of novel miRNAs with predicted target gene loci

Samples	CK	T1	T2	T3	Total
Conserved miRNAs No.	117	127	127	129	191
Predicted target genes No. of conserved miRNAs	2078	2077	2778	2064	4376
Novel miRNAs No.	34/29	61/48	46/43	57/52	87/59
Predicted target genes No. of novel miRNAs	1535	1341	2597	757	5528