Table 1.

Summary of the six silkmoth silk gland transcriptome

	A. per	A. yam	A. ass	Ac. sel	R. new	S. cyn
Clean reads	77,694,700	104,865,480	66,063,176	102,577,780	105,422,226	82,495,146
Effective data (bp)	6,992,523,000	9,437,893,200	5,945,685,840	9,232,000,200	9,488,000,340	7,424,563,140
Total number of contigs (Unigenes) (bp)	48,422	46,948	37,758	48,053	51,743	47,632
N50 (bp)	1068	1011	950	1020	995	1000
Mean length of contigs (Unigenes) (bp)	691	669	660	686	661	668