Appendix 3-figure 3: Ilumi1.0 Blobtools results

We sought to systematically remove assembled non-elaterid contaminant sequence from Ilumi1.0. Using the blobtools toolset (v.1.0.1), we taxonomically annotated our scaffolds by performing a blastn (v2.6.0+) nucleotide sequence similarity search against the NCBI nt database, and a diamond (v.0.9.10.111) translated nucleotide sequence similarity search against the of Uniprot reference proteomes (July 2017). Using this similarity information, we taxonomically annotated the scaffolds with blobtools using parameters “-x bestsumorder --rank phylum”.