Table 2. G. bimaculatus prothoracic ganglion transcriptome assembly statistics.

Total number of bases assembled	237,416,984
Total number of reads assembled	751,876,742
Total number of assembled contigs	511,724
Total number of Trinity “genes”	374,383
Minimum contig length (bp)	200
Maximum contig length (bp)	44,326
Average contig length (bp)	897.08
Median contig length (bp)	381
N50 (bp)	1981
Total GC count (bp)	95,774,011
GC content for the complete assembly (%)	40.34

Transcriptome assembly statistics were generated using Trinity software. Reads used for the de novo assembly were trimmed for Illumina adapters and quality filtered. Read length = 100bp.