Additional file 17 of Limited impact of the siRNA pathway on transposable element expression in Aedes aegypti

Additional file 18: Figure S16 – Size distributions of small RNA reads mapping to exons, TEs, and whole genes. Size distributions of small RNA-seq reads filtered for miRNA, tRNA, snRNA, and snoRNA genes mapping to exons (top row), TEs (center row), and whole genes (exons and introns, bottom row) in the three different tissues – midgut (left column), ovary (center column), and thorax (right column). Reads mapping to the sense strand are shown with a positive RPM, reads mapping to the antisense strand are shown with a negative RPM. Thorax samples in both the Dcr2 mutant and the control mosquitoes show an overabundance of reads of various sizes mapping to the sense strand of genes and, in particular, the sense strand of exons.