Table 1.

Sequencing statistics and transcriptome assembly statistics for three deep-sea coral species from the Red Sea represented by four colonies each.

Species	Read pairs (mio)	Reads retained (%)	assembled bp (mio)	assembled genes	annot. genes	annot. genes (%)	annot. genes (GO)	contig N50 (bp)	GC (%)
Dendrophyllia sp. 1	21.9	93.75	133	43,748	21,337	48.77	17,689	1,717	41.85
Dendrophyllia sp. 2	12.6	93.88
Dendrophyllia sp. 3	16.2	94.14
Dendrophyllia sp. 4	16.6	94.23
E. fistula 1	11.2	93.41	90.8	36,545	16,609	45.45	13,795	1,396	41.11
E. fistula 2	12.3	92.92
E. fistula 3	14.6	93.35
E. fistula 4	15.7	93.09
R. typus 1	12.4	94.16	131	41,186	21,123	51.29	17,065	1,805	41.88
R. typus 2	15.7	93.77
R. typus 3	13.8	93.59
R. typus 4	17.9	92.2