TABLE 3.

Important non-coding microRNAs reported in cattle spermatozoa by transcriptome analysis.

Species	Study type	Groups	MicroRNAs	Function	References
Bovine	cDNA library	High fertile vs Low fertile	miR-34b/c	Sperm chromatin condensation	Lian et al. (2021)
			miR-17-92 and miR-106b-25	Spermatogenesis
			miR-10a-5p	Motility
	MicroRNA microarray	High and low fertile	miR-3155, miR-8197, miR-6727, miR-11796, miR-14189, miR-6125, and miR-13659	Sperm fertilization	Govindaraju et al. (2012)
	RNA-Seq	Semen sample	miR-365-2	Oocyte fertilization and cleavage	Selvaraju et al. (2017)
	RNA-Seq	Small RNA sequencing	bta-miR-103, bta-miR- 30b-5p, bta-miR-17-5p, bta-miR-106b, bta-miR-142-3p, bta-miR-34b, bta-miR-18a, bta-miR-34c, bta-miR-455-5p, bta-miR-10b, bta-miR-99b, bta-miR-1246, bta-miR-99a-5p, bta-miR-1388-5p	Motility	Capra et al. (2017)