Fig. 2

The constructed phylogeny provided an ancestry of novel miRNAs that did not match any reported miRNA family. Clustering provided their possible ancestry divergence and uniqueness to B. tabaci. The novel identified miRNAs were grouped with the known miRNA family, representing their putative family, which is visualized using different color patterns. Those novel identified miRNAs that did not group with any known family were denoted as unique miRNAs with the same color throughout the tree.