Table 2.

Highly expressed genes in the transcriptome of Asia II 3

Gene ID	Number of readsa	RPKMb	Swissprot annotation
BT_ZHJ1_ZJU_Unigene4448	13476	3433.5	Actin-5, muscle-specific
BT_ZHJ1_ZJU_Unigene5935	8392	3212.7	Tubulin alpha-1 chain
BT_ZHJ1_ZJU_Unigene44594	6567	2854.2	60S ribosomal protein L18a
BT_ZHJ1_ZJU_Unigene40759	4952	2613.5	ADP,ATP carrier protein 2
BT_ZHJ1_ZJU_Unigene33425	3191	2213.8	Elongation factor 1-alpha 2
BT_ZHJ1_ZJU_Unigene36010	3122	1946.6	Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase
BT_ZHJ1_ZJU_Unigene40277	3388	1820.6	ATP synthase subunit beta, mitochondrial
BT_ZHJ1_ZJU_Unigene33344	2299	1595.0	Troponin T, skeletal muscle
BT_ZHJ1_ZJU_Unigene42468	3239	1584.9	Elongation factor 1-alpha
BT_ZHJ1_ZJU_Unigene38168	2689	1552.2	40S ribosomal protein S12
BT_ZHJ1_ZJU_Unigene44051	3336	1498.4	Vitellogenin-A1
BT_ZHJ1_ZJU_Unigene43506	3232	1497.2	40S ribosomal protein S11
BT_ZHJ1_ZJU_Unigene49876	5853	1473.5	60S ribosomal protein L15
BT_ZHJ1_ZJU_Unigene43457	3079	1430.8	40S ribosomal protein S20
BT_ZHJ1_ZJU_Unigene46015	3456	1358.3	60S ribosomal protein L6
BT_ZHJ1_ZJU_Unigene37661	2284	1344.7	Ferritin, middle subunit
BT_ZHJ1_ZJU_Unigene38243	2286	1319.6	Paramyosin, short form
BT_ZHJ1_ZJU_Unigene45492	3074	1258.3	ATP synthase subunit alpha, mitochondrial
BT_ZHJ1_ZJU_Unigene44482	2871	1255.2	Vitellogenin
BT_ZHJ1_ZJU_Unigene34665	1906	1251.8	40S ribosomal protein S2

^aThe total number of reads mapped to each gene.

^bGene expression level was determined by calculating the number of reads for each gene and then normalizing to RPKM (reads per kilobase per million mapped reads).