Table 1.

Summary of de-novo transcriptome assembly

Assembly details	Summary statistics
Total size of transcriptome	31,689,449 bp
Total number of reads	446, 282,529
Mean no. reads for early 4th larval libraries (EL)	25,699,084
Mean no. reads for late 4th larval libraries (LL)	27,632,760
Mean no. reads for 2 day pupal libraries (EP)	23,187,027
Mean no. reads for 5 day pupal libraries (PO)	28,375,390
Mean no. reads for 8 day pupal libraries (LM)	34,585,348
Total number of contigs	89, 065
Number of contigs >200 bp	40, 638
aMean contig length	779.8 bp
aMedian contig length	446 bp
aMax contig length	15, 506 bp
aN50	1, 266 bp
Number of contigs ≥ 500 bp	18, 491
Number of unigenes	15, 836

^aafter removal of short contigs <200 bp