Table 1.

Statistics of the EST raw reads and assembly.

		A. elongata	Collozoum sp.	S. streptacantha	A. scolymantha	Total
Total sequenced	Raw reads	195,890	214,475	220,239	195,070	825,674
	Cleaned reads	138,867	121,079	120,924	126,494	507,364
	BP	5.0 × 107	4.2 × 107	4.2 × 107	4.1 × 107	1.7 × 108
	Average length	362	337	348	369
	Median length	365	324	338	378
After assembly	Unigenes	14,210	42,784	25,590	42,251	124,835
	BP	6.5 × 106	1.6 × 107	1.0 × 107	1.7 × 107	4.9 × 107
	GC %	46.3	44.0	50.9	40.6
	Coverage	8.6	3.3	5.2	3.2
Contigs	No	3252	4888	3229	3243	14,612
	Assembly size (BP)	2.8 × 106	3.4 × 106	2.8 × 106	2.9 × 106	1.2 × 107
	%BP assembled	42.4	21.6	26.9	16.9
	Average length	858	699	883	893
	Median length	663	544	606	637
Annotations	Blastn	410	153	1486	409	2458
	Blastx	13,800	42,631	24,104	41,842	122,377
	Unigenes annotated to GO	2798	4839	4662	6938	19,237
	GO terms	2002	3027	3239	4318	6077
	Unigenes annotated to KEGG	1303	1665	2264	2047	7279
	KEGG pathways	98	101	105	111	123