Table 1.

Quality and Composition of Lepidoptera Genomes

Feature	Pgl	Dpl a	Hme	Bmo	Pxy
Genome size (Mb)	376	249	274	480	394
Heterozygosity (%)	1.80	0.55	na	na	~2b
Scaffold N50 (kb)	230	207	277	27 (3,700c)	734
CEGMA (%)	99.3	99.3	98.0	99.3	98.0
CEGMA coverage by single scaffold (%)	85.6	85.9	85.6	85.6	81.7
Cytoplasmic ribosomal proteins (%)	100	100	95.7	98.9	94.6
De novo assembled transcripts (%)	98	96	na	98	83
Repeat content (%)	22.2	16.3	24.9	44.1	34.0
Number of proteins (k)	15.7	15.1	12.8	14.3	18.1

na, not applicable. See alsoTable S2.

^aDpl, Danaus plexippus.

^bEstimated by comparing the distribution of K-mer frequency in the sequence reads, as shown in Figure 1C.

^cN50 for the improved genome assembly.