diff --git a/src/extractreads.py b/src/extractreads.py
index 4e860df..af2e338 100644
--- a/src/extractreads.py
+++ b/src/extractreads.py
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
             
         else:
             seqid = seqpair
-            seqidx[str(seqid)]=tseq
+            seqidx[str(seqid)]=tseq[0]
             
             for w in words:
                 seqlist = word2seq.get(w,set())