Table 1. Results of the assembly for the desert locust genome.

	Total	Total size (bp)	N50 (bp)	N90 (bp)	Largest (bp)	Mean length (bp)
Contigs	1,648,200	8,561,922,307	12,027	5,375	202,979	5,194.71
Scaffolds (MP)	1,233,802	8,632,364,377	66,194	15,575	1,561,787	8,350.11
Scaffolds (PacBio)	955,015	8,817,834,205	157,705	29,453	3,339,430	9,233.20

Scaffolds (MP), Scaffolds reached with the Mate Pair data using the ABySS pipeline; Scaffolds (PacBio), improved scaffolds with the PacBio data as input for LINKS; N50, the sequence length of the shortest contig/scaffold at 50% of the total genome length; N90, the sequence length of the shortest contig/scaffold at 90% of the total genome length