Fig. 9

Phylogenetic relatedness of Rhodobacter species. The evolutionary history was inferred using the Neighbor-Joining method [42]. The bootstrap consensus tree inferred from 1000 replicates [43] is taken to represent the evolutionary history of the taxa analyzed [43]. The evolutionary distances were computed using the Maximum Composite Likelihood method [44] and are in the units of the number of base substitutions per site. The analysis involved 19 16S rRNA sequences. All positions containing gaps and missing data were eliminated. There were a total of 1325 positions in the final dataset. Evolutionary analyses were conducted in MEGA6 [45].