Table 2. Quality screening and mapping statistics of RNA-Seq data.

Reads	JS178 (CGMS)	JB178 (Maintainer)	JR178 (Restorer)
No. of reads generated	53,048,502	61,704,635	67,960,025
No. of reads passed quality trimming	48,457,321	55,645,046	61,579,735
No. of reads mapped to reference genome of Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.)	34,037,349 (70.24%)	39,800,204 (71.52%)	45,395,238 (73.71%)
Total no. of bases mapped	5,325,913,900	6,227,644,626	7,103,116,022
GC% of mapped reads	43.17	43.24	43.26
Q25% of mapped reads	94.23	94.19	94.26
Error% of mapped reads	0.0128	0.0114	0.0112
Average length of mapped reads (bp)	237	234	245