The gene models, transcripts and other derived data were generated from a comprehensive transcriptome survey of samples taken from five embryonic stages, adult female, and adult male samples. In total 1.6 billion 76-100 bp pair-end reads were obtained. The reads were mapped onto the N. vectensis genome v1.0, and new gene models were constructed using the RNA-seq evidence with the Augustus gene caller. These RNA-seq evidence based gene models are identified by a NVE prefix.