RNA-seq highlights parallel and contrasting patterns in the evolution of the nuclear genome of fully mycoheterotrophic plants

Table 1 Brief statistics of the transcriptome assemblies

	Epipogium aphyllum		Epipogium roseum		Hypopitys monotropa
	All transcripts	CDSs^a	All transcripts	CDSs^a	All transcripts	CDSs^a
Number of sequences	992,338	20,958	1,336,170	19,026	217,166	13,276
Number of sequences longer or equal to 1000 bps	39,403	4321	28,284	3259	33,560	5421
Total length of sequences	290,947,719	12,988,731	321,048,790	10,721,418	116,614,033	13,496,709
N50	371	1173	257	990	1199	1470
Median length of sequences	178	306	164	315	237	807

^aHere, the CDS is defined as the longest ORF in the major isoforms of the transcripts that were assigned at least one GO term (low-coverage transcripts and contaminating transcripts are not considered)

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