Table 1.

Summary statistics for the mRNA reads before and after trimming.

Stage	Number of Raw Reads	Number of Trimmed Reads	Mean Length of Trimmed Reads (Bases)
Pre-competent larva	50,575,622	45,196,156	79.2
Post-larva	40,918,798	36,386,512	78.6
Adult	47,692,930	42,343,572	78.5
All stages	139,287,350	123,926,240	78.8