Figure 3.
Effect of dcl3 mutation on C. reinhardtii small RNA population. (A) Size-distribution histograms of sRNAs from the parental line A4-1 and its derivative dcl3-1 mutant expressed as the number of counted reads of a given size per million (CPM) of reads matching the C. reinhardtii genome. The percentage of 21-nt sRNAs with their 5′ nucleotide identities is also shown. (B) Size-distribution histograms of nonredundant sRNAs from the parental line A4-1 and its derivative dcl3-1 mutant expressed as CPM of reads matching the C. reinhardtii genome. Two additional replicates per sample, as well as three replicates from the E9-3 parental and dcl3-3 lines, showed the same result.
