Table 1.

Assembly statistics of the L. punctata transcriptome

Items	Characteristics
PE read number	241,859,950
Contig number	140,432
Contig ≥10,000 bp	133
Contig ≥2,000 bp	25,641
Contigs >1,000 bp	50,008
Average length (bp)	1,131
Max length (bp)	18,144
N50 length (bp)	2,197
Total length (bp)	158,793,737

PE reads from five L. punctata samples were pooled together and assembled using Trinity (v2012-06-08). Statistics were conducted by common perl scripts.