sRNA population in HT and AB D. melanogaster. Drosophila melanogaster

The aim was to profile the small RNA population in females. We observed that a very abundant rRNA fragment was present in the AB sample, but not in the HT sample. Overall design: Females were dissected into head/thorax and abdomen and RNA extracted from both tissues. For each sample, the experiment was repeated and the flies were pooled before RNA extraction.