Table 1:

Genome sequencing: technology and assembly details and gene prediction features

Description	Genomic DNA	BAC clones
Sequencing and assembly data
Sequencing data	26 Illumina synthetic long-read libraries	Single-end Roche 454 of BAC library clones
Total sequence (Gb)	19	6.6
Genome coverage	1.9×	0.66×
Read length minimum/maximum/mean (bp)	1,500/22,904/4,930	8/2,611/368.5
Assembler software	Celera Assembler (Overlap Graph)	PHRAP/CONSED
Total reads used in assembly	3,857,849	17,894,306
Total assembly size	4.26 Gb	49.6 Mb
Number of unitigs/contigs + singletons	450,609	463
Contigs length minimum/maximum/mean (bp)	1,500/468,011/9,452	11,723/235,533/107,129
NG50 (bp)	41,394	109,618
N50 (bp)	13,157	N/A
Gene prediction features
No. genes	373,869	3,550
No. transcripts	374,774
No. exons	1,035,764	13,132
Mean GC content (%)	43.20	44.99
Mean No. exons per gene	2.8	3.7
Mean exon size (bp)	291	271.8
Median exon size (bp)	171	154
Mean intron size (bp)	352.6	539.2
Median intron size (bp)	132	139
Mean gene size (bp) with UTR	1,437.80	2,429.20
Median gene size (bp) with UTR	806	1,260.50
Mean gene size (bp) without UTR	1,318.80	2,351.30
Median gene size (bp) without UTR	771	1,199.50
Mean gene density (kb per gene)	11.4	14

GC: guanine-cytosine; UTR: untranslated region.