Table 2.

Simulated datasets of short reads

Samples	No. of	Phylogenetic	Ratio	No. of
species		distance	reads
S1	2	Species	1:1	96367
S2	2	Species	1:1	195339
S3	2	Order	1:1	338725
S4	2	Phylum	1:1	375302
S5	3	Species and	1:1:1	325400
		Family
S6	3	Phylum and	3:2:1	713388
		Kingdom
S7	5	Order, Order	1:1:1:4:4	1653550
		Genus, Order
S8	5	Genus, Order	3:5:7:9:11	456224
		Order, Order
S9	15	various distances	1:1:1:1:1:	2234168
			2:2:2:2:2:
			3:3:3:3:3
S10	30	various distances	4:4:4:4:4:	4990632
			6:6:6:6:6:
			7:7:7:7:7:
			8:8:8:8:8:
			9:9:9:9:9:
			10:10:10:10:10
L1	2	Class	1:1	176688
L2	2	Class	1:2	259568
L3	2	Class	1:3	342448
L4	2	Class	1:4	425328
L5	2	Class	1:5	508209
L6	2	Class	1:6	591089