Figure 1

Maximum likelihood tree based on orthologous genes from xanthomonads and Stenotrophomonas. Concatenated amino acid sequences of the orthologous genes from four bacterial spot pathogen strains along with other sequenced xanthomonads were considered in the analysis. Stenotrophomonas maltophilia (Sm) was used as an outgroup. The evolutionary history was inferred using the Maximum likelihood method. The tree is drawn to scale, with branch lengths corresponding to the evolutionary distances. The evolutionary distances were computed using the Maximum Composite Likelihood method and are in the units of the number of base substitutions per site.