RNA-seq data of adult tissues and developmental stages of Octopus vulgaris
Specimens of Octopus vulgaris were collected in the Bay of Naples (Italy). Euthanized animals were used for sample collection through surgical procedures. Tissues collected correspond to different arm tissues and peripheral ganglia, namely: the most distal extremity (tip) of the first anterior right arm R1 (i.e., TIP_a), the muscular tissue of the same arm (i.e., ARM_a_m); a distal portion of the fourth posterior right arm R4 (i.e., ARM_p), the left stellate ganglion (i.e., stellate) and the gastric ganglion (i.e., gastric). Three biological replicates for each tissue were employed. In addition to adult tissues, three developmental stages were included: i.e, whole embryos eight days before hatchling (stage XVI, named pre-hatching samples), paralarvae on the day of hatch (named hatching embryo), and four days post-hatchling (post-hatching larvae). Biological duplicates were utilized for the developmental stages; embryos and larvae were collected from the same egg batch.