Fig. 2

Origin of plastid-bearing eukaryotes MEP-pathway genes. The cladograms display clustering of plastid-bearing eukaryotes DXS (a), MDS (b), DXR (c), HDR (d), CMS (e) and CMK (f) with other-eubacteria, obtained from RAxML using amino acid sequences. Taxa in various major groups are shown in different colors. Species in eukaryotes, PVC groups and Cyanobacteria are shaded with light green, light yellow and light blue, respectively. Numbers associated with branches are bootstrap (BS) values obtained from RAxML and posterior probability obtained from MrBayes. The dash associated with the branches of eukaryotes and the other-eubacteria shown as 14/− and 15/−indicate that the relationships are not supported by MrBayes