Abstract:In order to rich miRNA database of Ovis aries and investigate regulation mechanism of miRNA on mammalian ovaries. Sexual maturity period ovarian miRNA cDNA library was successfully constructed by high-throughput sequencing methods, and 9 321 775 clean reads have been obtained. Novel miRNAs of 267 were identified from those clean reads and 12 692 target genes were predicted. Meanwhile,the first base pairs of candidate miRNAs have biased for U and A. With GO analysis, more than 70% of the genes were related to cell or intracellular part component ontology, more than 77% of the genes were involved in cellular processes and approximately 78.5% of the genes had binding functions. KEGG Pathway analysis showed that about 10.61% of the genes were committed to a metabolic pathway. The results will have certain theoretical guidance and practical significance for further research on miRNAs function of Ovis aries ovary.