Table 2.

P450 genes expressed at specific developmental stages

Family	Stage	Gene number	Clan	Homologous genes	% similarity, organisms	RPKMb
P450sa	Egg	32583	CYP3	6AX1.6B3	82%, N. vitripennis	0.72
	Larval	13679	CYP3	6B2, 6B6, 6B7	89%, H. armigera	0.36
		22278	CYP3	321B1	Spodoptera litura	1.58
		15388	CYP 3	6AE14	100%, H. armigera	19.16
		19180	CYP 3	9A18	74%, H. armigera	7.63
		12812	CYP4	4 L6	85%, B. Mori	1.11
		10466	CYP 4	340AA1	75%, S. littoralis	29.13
		10601	CYP 4	341A2	88%, B. Mori	3.84
		14820	CYP 4	341B1	88%, B. mori	3.57
	Pupa	28770	CYP 3	9A14	83%, H. zea	4.72
	Female	29309	CYP 3	6CV2	Plutella xylostella	17.73
		29201	CYP 3	6B1	Papilio polyxenes	16.33
		22936	CYP 4	402C1	78 %, Bemisia tabaci	14.07

^aThe cytochrome P450 clan schema used here follows the system proposed by Feyereisen et al. (2006)

^bRPKM < 0.1 was used as the criterion to judge the unigenes were not expressed during a given developmental stage