Table 1. Summary of the Ixodes scapularis genome assembly and annotation statistics.

IscaW1 assembly statistics
Total number of sequence reads	17.4 M
Estimated fold coverage of the assembly	3.8-fold
Number of scaffolds	369,495
N50 scaffold length	51,551 bp
Number of contigs used in assembly	570,637
N50 contig length	2,942 bp
Total length of combined contigs	1.4 Gb
Total length of combined scaffolds (including gaps)	1.8 Gb
Estimated genome size	2.1 Gb
Annotation release 1.2 statistics
Total number of genes	20,486
Mean gene length	10,589 bp
Mean coding DNA sequence (CDS) length	855 bp