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Neighbor-joining tree of partial 16S rRNA gene sequences depicting the phylogenetic relationships of 16S rRNA gene bacterial clones from fresh (F) and mature (M) sludge DNA. Numbers at nodes represent bootstrap values based on 1,000 replications. Escherichia coli was used as the outgroup of the tree. Sequences from this study are shown in bold.
