Supplementary material, Figures and Tables from Wang et al. Disentangling sources of variation in SSU rDNA sequences from single cell analyses of ciliates: impact of copy number variation and experimental error.

Table S1. Genetic distances, polymorphic sites and copy numbers of SSU rDNA amplified from three different cells of B. americanum using ExTaq and Q5® Hot Start High-Fidelity DNA Polymerase. Table S2. Primers for quantitative real-time PCR. Figure S1. The standard curves of rDNA copy number in the three species. Figure S2. Correlations between Hd, π and rDNA copy number.