Genome-Wide Identification of Putative MicroRNAs in Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) and Their Functional Landscape in Cellular Regulation

Table 1

The putativemiRNA sequences in cassava proposed from our genome-wide analysis.

	Intergenic			Intronic			Total
	Number of sequences	Percentage of genome	Percentage of non-coding regions	Number of sequences	Percentage of genome	Percentage of non-coding regions	Number of sequences	Percentage of genome	Percentage of non-coding regions
Non-coding regions	56,606	91.77	93.54	142,220	6.33	6.46	198,826	98.11	100.00
120-nt input sequences	7,580,807	85.42	87.06	698,585	7.80	7.99	8,279,392	93.25	95.05
Predicted loci	70,716	2.13	2.17	7,306	0.22	0.22	78,022	2.35	2.40
Putative pre-miRNAs	58,868	0.68	0.69	6,528	0.07	0.07	65,396	0.75	0.77
Putative mature miRNA candidates
5p	69,863	0.15	0.15	7,543	0.02	0.02	77,406	0.16	0.17
3p	67,334	0.14	0.14	7,371	0.02	0.02	74,705	0.16	0.16