Table 1. Summary for Pieris rapae developmental transcriptome.

Stage	transcripts			unigenes			Total assembled bases
	Number	GC%	N50	number	Median	Average Unigene
E	101,274	38.74	2,487	22703	854	1,444.43	146,283,171
L1	105,228	40.61	2,100	49,165	803	1,251.53	131,695,912
L3	63,204	40.88	1,321	43,807	479	816.43	51,601,445
L5	63,535	39.99	1,374	42,187	489	848.17	53,888,489
P	92,776	40.28	2,104	44,671	811	1,255.81	116,508,688
A	104,668	40.39	2,303	47,717	905	1,370.61	143,458,521
ALL	238,783	39	2471	96,069	798	1,353.27	330,715,242

E, L1, L3, L5, L, P, and A refer to egg, first stage of larva, third stage of larva, fifth stage of larva, pupa, and adults of P. pieris, respectively. The unit of N50, Median, and Average Unigene is nt (nucleotides).