Differential expression of endogenous plant cell wall degrading enzyme genes in the stick insect (Phasmatodea) midgut

Table 1 Total reads and trinity results for each transcriptomic or genomic library

*de novo*stick insect transcriptome assemblies	Reads	Total trinity transcripts (isotigs)	Total trinity components (isogroups)	Contig N50
Peruphasma schultei		135622	99469	1669
Anterior midgut 1	15,578,606
Anterior midgut 2	17,004,583
Anterior midgut 3	20,651,269
Total:	53,234,458
Posterior midgut 1	17,664,733
Posterior midgut 2	22,326,598
Posterior midgut 3	21,932,697
Total:	61,924,028
Aretaon asperrimus		142181	110688	3188
Anterior midgut	57,859,873
Posterior midgut	41,709,281
Extatosoma tiaratum		163928	117927	1878
Anterior midgut	67,177,740
Posterior midgut	59,190,949
Medauroidea extradentata		130080	99465	2246
Anterior midgut	54,198,129
Posterior midgut	49,043,590
Ramulus artemis		169555	92260	2007
Anterior midgut	55,689,810
Posterior midgut	59,684,645
Sipyloidea sipylus		114125	72103	1257
Anterior midgut	47,511,044
Genomic *P. schultei* reads (brain tissue)	46,868,237

Total number of transcripts and components based on results of the Trinity assembler [3] with default parameters. N50 statistic is a nucleotide length.

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