Figure 3

Phylogenetic tree based on 16S rRNA gene sequences (ca. 1561 bp) using the neighbor-joining method. The optimal tree with the sum of branch length = 0.11633261 is shown. Bootstrap test (1000 replicates) is shown next to the branches. The tree is drawn to scale, with branch lengths in the same units as those of the evolutionary distances used to infer the phylogenetic tree. The evolutionary distances analysis involved 10 nucleotide sequences. All positions with less than 95% site coverage were eliminated. That is fewer than 5% alignment gaps, missing data, and ambiguous bases were allowed at any position. There were a total of 1365 positions in the final dataset. Vibrio comitans was used as outgroup.