Table 1. Assembly metrics, annotation information, and reads mapped for transcriptome assembly.

Number of contigs	356,237
Total span (bp)	156,920,694
Number of contigs >1Kb	22,934
Max Contig Length (bp)	16,256
Mean Contig Length (bp)	440
N50 (bp)	487
Number of contigs with BLAST hits*	70,621
% of contigs with BLAST hits*	19.8
% of reads mapped to transcriptome (bowtie [32])	58.13

*Contigs compared to NCBI’s non-redundant protein database using BLASTx, hits with e-value≤1e-06 retained.