Table 1 Assembly details of Japanese sardine (Sardinops melanostictus) brain–pituitary–gonadal (BPG) axis transcriptome

 Number of contigs

290,119

 Total bases (bp)

201,987,287

 Longest contig length (bp)

18,202

 Shortest contig length (bp)

203

 Average of contig length (bp)

696

 N50

1165

 Number of non-redundant ORFs

115,173

 Complete ORFs

47,886

 Internal ORFs

24,524

 5′ partial ORFs

30,603

 3′ partial ORFs

12,160

 Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus)

47,201^a

 Zebrafish (Danio rerio)

46,335^a

 Medaka (Oryzias latipes)

45,307^a