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The discovery of sperm-carrying RNAs (mRNAs and small Non-coding RNAs) has opened the possibility of paternal contributions that more than merely providing the DNA.Sperm-carrying miRNA and mRNA have been implicated as active players in early embryo development and transgenerational epigenetic inheritance.However, the relative contents and profiles of small RNA population carried by mature sperm remain undefined.