Table 3. Estimated genome size and 16S copy number for the seven mock taxa in the Brooks et al. (2015) experiment (Materials and methods).

Taxon	Genome size (Mbp)	Copy number
Atopobium vaginae	1.44	2*
Gardnerella vaginalis	1.64	2
Lactobacillus crispatus	2.04	4
Lactobacillus iners	1.28	5*
Prevotella bivia	2.52	4*
Sneathia amnii	1.33	3*
Streptococcus agalactiae	2.16	7

*Denotes copy numbers that were instead estimated to be 1 by Brooks et al. (2015).