Table 1.

First-pass genomic assembly statistics for five Lake Malawi cichlid species

	MC	LF	MA	MZ	RE
Total number of contigs in assembly	61,923	58,245	63,297	65,094	55,751
Total length (bases)	73,425,564	70,858,381	68,238,634	79,168,277	71,295,074
Genome coveragea (%)	6.68	6.44	6.20	7.20	6.48
Mean trace length (bases)	1,055	1,092	991	1,145	1,153
Shortest contig length (bases)	50	50	50	50	50
Longest contig length (bases)	19,632	17,437	21,601	15,371	21,351
Mean contig length (bases)	1,186	1,217	1,078	1,216	1,279
Q25 contig length (bases)	759	846	783	805	934
Q50 (median) contig length (bases)	966	1,063	949	1,163	1,113
Q75 contig length (bases)	1,403	1,355	1,102	1,417	1,407
Total genic length (bases)	2,863,110 (3.9%)	2,841,933 (4.0%)	2,761,941 (4.0%)	2,851,968 (3.6%)	2,797,548 (3.9%)

^aUsing an average cichlid genome size of 1.1 × 10⁹ bases. LF, Labeotropheus fuelleborni; MA, Melanochromis auratus; MC, Mchenga conophorus; MZ, Maylandia zebra; RE, Rhamphochromis esox; Q25, 25^th percentile; Q50, median or 50^th percentile; Q75, 75^th percentile.