Table 3.

Differentially expressed miRNAs identified in the breast muscles of NOR and WB chickens.

miRNA	WB (TPM)	NOR (TPM)	log2FC (WB/NOR)	FDR	Type
gga-miR-223	245.84	64.76	1.92	0.0000	Up
gga-miR-21-3p	2,862.65	738.48	1.95	0.0000	Up
gga-miR-146b-5p	39,883.76	18056.15	1.14	0.0001	Up
gga-miR-21-5p	45,122.03	12724.5	1.83	0.0001	Up
gga-miR-3530-5p	12.95	2.25	2.52	0.0001	Up
gga-miR-1552-5p	26.87	9.7	1.47	0.0002	Up
gga-miR-222a	357.81	145.34	1.3	0.0003	Up
gga-miR-458a-3p	73.68	25.58	1.53	0.0004	Up
gga-miR-142-5p	2,654.68	1177.66	1.17	0.0026	Up
gga-miR-129-5p	82.01	37.2	1.14	0.0028	Up
gga-miR-155	88.34	34.57	1.35	0.0028	Up
gga-miR-142-3p	109.72	37.55	1.55	0.0029	Up
gga-miR-455-3p	72.91	36.29	1.01	0.0036	Up
gga-miR-29c-3p	50.24	20.53	1.29	0.0038	Up
gga-miR-29a-3p	52.29	21.71	1.27	0.0047	Up
novel-m0077-3p	3.07	0.23	3.77	0.0058	Up
novel-m0009-3p	10.98	3.82	1.53	0.0072	Up
gga-miR-1329-5p	9.55	4.29	1.16	0.0304	Up
gga-miR-29b-3p	10.98	4.7	1.23	0.0442	Up
novel-m0123-5p	2.21	0.66	1.75	0.0442	Up
gga-miR-489-3p	5.41	14.54	-1.43	0.0092	Down
gga-miR-133a-3p	18,101.01	42964.55	-1.25	0.0346	Down
gga-miR-133b	1,498.12	3274.01	-1.13	0.0442	Down

The miRNA expression level was calculated and normalized to transcripts per million (TPM).