Fig. 3

Relative abundance of candidate miRNAs and their predicted targets in diapause termination and diapause status of C. septempunctata as determined by RT-qPCR, respectively. Asterisk above the standard error bars indicate significant differences based on ANOVA followed by T-test (P < 0.05). U6 and Tubulin were used as an internal reference gene to normalize the differences of miRNA and target genes, respectively