Table 1. Transcriptome assembly summary statistics.

	C. travisae	C. vibora	H. signatus	H. ustulatus	N. bishopi	N. cooperi
Transcripts	144,351	165,397	55,081	57,456	52,484	41,169
Components (“genes”)	122,700	146,297	53,337	55,642	51,216	35,817
N50	676	418	814	1002	1266	1161
Mean length	519	407	581	640	747	714
Median length	305	276	345	353	396	392
Maximum length	12,541	11,555	11,379	16,104	14,486	14,677
Nucleotides	74,927,623	67,360,479	31,976,435	36,757,749	39,233,450	29,393,279
% GC content	34.99	36.45	32.97	33.46	36.21	37.55
% of reads aligning to transcripts	83.14	79.96	86.01	90.26	89.4	84.91
Mean Read Coverage	22	18	50	52	41	22