Table 1.

Assembly results for Phlebotomus papatasi and Lutzomyia longipalpis at all steps of the assembly process presented in Fig. 1.

Assembly steps		Phlebotomus papatasi	Lutzomyia longipalpis
Initial sequences	Total	47,615	27,928
	Normalized	47,615	26,495
	Non-normalized	N/A	1,433
Filtering	Passed	47,227	27,863
	Failed	388	65
Cleaning and trimming	Lucy	37,708	24,102
	SeqClean	37,487	24,019
First tier assembly	Contigs	7,683	6,049
	Singlets	22,121	11,101
Second tier assembly	Contigs	6,187	5,063
	Singlets	10,933	4,963
Total		17,120	10,026
Sequences longer than 200 nucleotides		16,265	N/A