Table 3.

Annotation of miRNAs against miRBase v22

	O2P1	O2P2	T3P1	T3P2
a)
Sequence tags	1,236,287	863,918	1,311,009	1,593,460
Conserved miRNAs	4953	3349	5455	6340
% of Conserved miRNAs	0.40	0.39	0.42	0.40
b)
total count sequence tags	33,549,550	22,244,919	32,962,095	40,468,525
total count of conserved miRNAs	124,715	76,053	131,881	136,855
% of the total count of conserved miRNAs	0.37	0.34	0.40	0.34

Annotation is expressed a) in function of the unique reads annotated; and b) the total count of the cleaned reads of each library