Functional small RNAs are generated from select miRNA hairpin loops in flies and mammals
Drosophila melanogaster
Various Argonautes associated small RNA profiles in drosophilia melanogaster were generated by deep sequencing.  The Ago-complexes were immuno-purified from S2-R  cells stably transfected with pCaSpeR-FLAG-HA-AGO2 plasmid using anti-AGO1 or anti-FLAG antibody.