Table 2. Sequences used for the assembly of the Agassiz’s desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) genome.

Targeted Library Size	Number of Reads	Estimated Coverage1
200 bp paired-end	1,222,612,586	54X
300 bp paired-end	1,186,573,102	53X
1 kbp paired-end	468,101,028	21X
2 kbp mate pair	147,436,368	6X
4 kbp mate pair	182,973,840	8X
10 kbp mate-pair	112,067,096	5X
Total	3,319,764,020	147X

¹Based on an estimated total genome size of 2.4 Gbp, see Results and discussion.