Table 3 miRNAs associated with wing development in insects.

From: Comparative profiling of microRNAs in the winged and wingless English grain aphid, Sitobion avenae (F.) (Homoptera: Aphididae)

miRNA

Role or target genes

Insects

References

miR-9a

dLMO, senseless, affecting wing tissue and the ectopic apoptosis

Drosophila

20

miR-12, -283

Cos-2, fu, smo, affecting Hg signaling pathway

25

miR-8

Dll, se, involving Wnt signaling

60

Let-7

Abrupt, stimulating cell proliferation and preventing apoptosis

18

miR-315

activating wingless signaling

47

miR-7

Regulating Notch signal

61

miR-iab-4-5p

Ultrabithorax, Wing/halter sepcification

31

miR-iab-8-5p

Ultrabithorax, abdominal A, Wing/halter sepcification

62

bantam

Hid, enaled, mei-p26, suppression imaginal discs

63

miR-252-5p, miR-982-5p

Dis3, suppressing wing development

29

miR-263, -184

affecting lepidopteron wing scale cell patterning

Butterfly

21

miR-193, -2788

predicting their specific functions in butterfly wing

21

miR-2768

Cubitus interruptus, involving wing primordia patterning

64

miR-1

Probably relating muscle development

Locust

40

miR-125

Predicting to regulate two phase of locust

40

Let-7, miR-100, -125

Affecting wing morphogenesis

Cockroach

19