Fig. 1

Maximum likelihood phylogeny based on 16S rRNA gene sequences. The GenBank accession number for each sequence is provided in parentheses next to the species name abbreviation The genus name is listed to the right of all applicable entries. The levels of bootstrap support based on 1000 replications are labeled above internal branches; only values greater than 50% are listed. On the basis of a BLASTN sequence similarity search against the NCBI 16S rRNA sequence database, the strain G10744 is most similar to the type strain of Ralstonia mannitolilytica (1350/1360 = 99.3% sequence identity). Other representative species from the family Burkholderiaceae are included to infer the phylogenetic placement of G10744. The sequence from Actimicrobium antarcticum (family Oxalobacteraceae) is included as the outgroup to root the phylogeny