Figure 3
From: Genome organization and characteristics of soybean microRNAs
Soybean miRNA family size and mature sequence length. A. Size of different classes of soybean miRNA families. Conserved (black bars, 26 families), legume-specific (grey bars, 9 families) and soybean-specific (white bars, 73 families) families had distinct characteristics. Family size was statistically different between conserved and both legume and soybean-specific families (Student’s T-test, P = 10-6and 10-6respectively), and different between legume and soybean-specific families (Student’s T-test, P = 0.04). B. Percentage of loci producing ≤21 nt (black bars) or ≥22 nt (grey bars) long mature miRNAs in each conservation class. Mature sequence length was statistically different between conserved and soybean-specific families (Student’s T-test, P = 0.01) as well as conserved and legume-specific families (Student’s T-test, P = 0.03).