Table 1.

A. alata pooled transcriptome assembly statistics

	Whole transcriptome	Filtered transcriptome (fpkm = 1.5)
No. of transcripts	126,484	31,776
No. of genes	84,124	20,173
Total assembled bases (bp)	125,647,941	48,556,932
Avg (mean) transcript length (bp)	993	1528
Median transcript length (bp)	456	989
Max transcript length (bp)	9993	9993
N50	1994	2545
GC content (%)	39	40
Percent proper pairs	77	78
Samtools percent mapped and paired	75	77

De novo assembly began with 264,505,922 trimmed raw reads generated from medusa gastric cirri, ovaries, tentacle (with pedalium base), rhopalium, and planulae samples