Table 1.

Statistical summary of the de novo assembled Haemaphysalis flava transcriptome

Statistical parameters	Values
Contig information
Total number of contigs	1,083,053
Number of bases	478,226,128
Mean length of contigs (bp)	442
N50 length of contigs (bp)	470
GC% of contigs	49.28
Largest contig (bp)	8332
No. of large contigs ≥ 500 bp	287,811
No. of large contigs ≥ 1000 bp	42,711
Transcript information
Total number of sequences	295,010
Number of bases	165,143,182
Mean length of sequences (bp)	560
N50 length of sequences (bp)	644
GC % of sequences	49.92
Largest sequence (bp)	8332
No. of large sequences ≥ 500 bp	127,327
No. of large sequences ≥ 1000 bp	28,528
unigene information
Total number of unigenes	69,822
Number of bases	55,278,029
Mean length of unigenes (bp)	792
N50 length of unigenes (bp)	947
GC% of unigenes	53.09
Length range of unigenes (bp)	77–13,587

GC% guanine-cytosine content (%), N50 length length for which the collection of all contigs of that length or longer contains at least half of the sum of the lengths of all contigs