TABLE 3.

Closest genera classification for bacterial Tamarix sequences, obtained from isolates, DGGE bands, and clone libraries

Taxonomic group	Nearest relative	Similarity range (%)	Number of hits per taxon
α-Proteobacteria	“α-Proteobacterium”	93–97	4
	“Marine bacterium”	96–97	3
	Oceanicola	92–94	2
	Rhodobacteraceae	92–96	3
	Roseobacterium	93	1
	Salipiger	92–93	2
	Sphingomonas	95	1
γ-Proteobacteria	Chromohalobacter	93	1
	Salinomonas	96	3
	Salmonella	91	1
	Xenorhabdus	91	1
	Escherichia	97–99	6
	“γ-Proteobacterium”	98	1
	Pseudomonas	99	1
	Shigella	94–98	2
	Acinetobacter	97–98	2
	Halomonadaceae	94–97	6
	Halomonas	90–98	14
Bacteroidetes	“Arctic sea ice bacterium”	95	1
	Cellulophaga	95	1
	Bacteroidetes	93	1
	Cytophaga	94–96	5
	Flavobacterium	97–98	1
	Leeuwenhoekella	93	1
	Salegentibacter	95–96	4
	Sufflavibacter	91	1
	“Uncultured bacterium clone”	93–99	2
Actinobacteria	“Antarctic bacterium”	98–99	2
	Arthrobacter	97–99	3
	Brachybacterium	96–99	7
	Brevibacterium	92–99	7
	Citricoccus	98	2
	“Glacial ice bacterium”	95	1
	Nesterenkonia	92–99	4
	Kocuria	93–99	9
	Micrococcaceae	98	1
	Micrococcus	95–98	5
Firmicutes	Bacillus	92–99	20
	Marinococcus	93–99	16
	Staphylococcus	92–99	9
	Staphylococcaceae	99	1
	“Antarctic seawater bacterium”	99	1
	“Blackwater bioreactor bacterium”	96	1
	Oceanobacillus	98	2
	Paenibacillus	95–99	3
	Paracoccus	99	1
	Planococcus	94–98	17
	Planomicrobium	97–99	12
	Sinococcus	97	1
	Salinococcus	98	4
β-Proteobacteria	Variovorax	98	1
Deinococcus-Thermus	Deinococcus	93	1

Quotation marks denote deposited information with no affiliation to an identified genus.