Table 1.

Overview of sequencing and assembly

Raw data
Total number of reads	71878419
Number of unique high-quality reads	13300000
Number of contigs obtained with Velvet/Oases/STM-	22363
Unigenes dataset
Unigenes number	10338
Total size (bp)	1787600
Largest transcript length (bp)	1314
N50 length (bp)	168
No ATGC characters	18
Average coverage per base	62
Predicted proteins
Predicted CDS (partial/complete)	4472
Gene expression
Reads mapped in transcripts	71148200
Most expressed transcript (rpkm)	68250

bp: base pair; rpkm: read coverage normalized per million mapped nucleotides and the length of unigene.