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. 2021 Jan 8;4:52. doi: 10.1038/s42003-020-01563-3

Fig. 1. Different miRNAs expression in parasitized and unparasitized S. litura.

Fig. 1

a miRNAs produced in unparasitized S. litura (HSL-CN) and S. manilae-parasitized S. litura (PSL-36; 36 h post-parasitism). Genes that may be affected by mature miRNAs expression in S. manilae-parasitized S. litura were identified by miRBase and classified according to their involved biological processes (b), cellular compartments (c), and molecular functions (d). e miRNAs produced in S. litura after S. manilae parasitism with gene targets predicted in the Toll and JAK/STAT pathways. f The expression levels of 11 predicted miRNAs were quantified by a stem-loop qPCR in S. litura third-instar larvae 48 h after S. manilae parasitism. The expression of let-7 miRNA serves as a positive control. g The expression levels of 11 predicted miRNAs were quantified using stem-loop qPCR in SL1A cells 48 h after SmBV infection, with let-7 miRNA as the positive control. A Ct value of 35 was set to be the cutoff for detection. h miR-199b-5p and miR-2989 are present on MdBV genome segments I and K. The red bars represent the locations of the two precursors. At least three repetitions were conducted for each group. p-value were calculated using Student’s t-test (*p < 0.05).