Table 1.

Genomes used in this comparative study.

Order	Sub/Infraorder	Species	Assembly size (bp)	Number of scaffolds	Scaffold N50 length (bp)	Longest scaffold (bp)	Sequencing technology	Source	References
Class Branchiopoda
Diplostraca	Anomopoda	Daphnia pulex	197,206,209	5,186	642,089	4,193,030	SS	Ensembl (V1.0)	Colbourne et al. (2011)
Diplostraca	N/A	Eulimnadia texana	120,535,642	108	18,070,303	42,684,797	PE, PB	NCBI (NKDA01)	Baldwin-Brown et al. (2017)
Class Malacostraca
Amphipoda	Talitrida	Parhyale hawaiensis	2,752,560,740	278,189	20,228,728	75,825,039	PE, MP	NCBI (LQNS02)	Kao et al. (2016)
Decapoda	Astacidea	Cherax quadricarinatus	3,236,648,033	508,682	33,235	970,867	PE, ONT	NCBI (VSFE01)	This study
Decapoda	Astacidea	Procambarus virginalis	3,338,655,684	1,980,964	37,475	717,999	PE, LJD	NCBI (MRZY01)	Gutekunst et al. (2018)
Decapoda	Brachyura	Eriocheir sinensis	1,118,179,535	1,768,652	111,755	2,002,076	PE	GigaScience repo	Song et al. (2016)
Decapoda	Caridea	Exopalaemon carinicauda	6,699,723,695	9,470,451	962	135,963	PE	NCBI (QUOF01)	Li et al. (2019)
Decapoda	Caridea	Neocaridina denticulata	1,284,468,468	3,346,358	400	124,746	PE	requested from author	Kenny et al. (2014)
Decapoda	Dendrobranchiata	Litopenaeus vannamei	1,663,565,311	4,682	605,555	3,458,385	PE, PB, BAC	NCBI (QCYY01)	Zhang et al. (2019)
Decapoda	Dendrobranchiata	Marsupenaeus japonicus	1,660,270,162	2,434,740	912	29,048	PE	NCBI (NIUR01)	Yuan et al. (2018)
Decapoda	Dendrobranchiata	Penaeus monodon	1,447,415,504	2,525,346	769	26,545	PE	NCBI (NIUS01)	Yuan et al. (2018)

Sequencing Technology abbreviations.

PE, Paired-end short reads (Illumina).

MP, Mate-pair short reads (Illumina).

LJD, Long jumping distance (Illumina).

PB, Pacific Biosciences long reads.

ONT, Oxford Nanopore Technology long reads.

SS, Paired-end Sanger sequencing (plasmid, fosmid libraries).