FIG. 3.

Neighbor-joining phylogenetic tree of 16S rRNA genes of planctomycete-related bacteria amplified from Hythe sediment samples (obtained in February 2005) by using the AN bacterium-specific primers Brod541F-Brod1260R. Evolutionary distances were calculated using the Kimura substitution algorithm. The 16S rRNA gene sequence from “Candidatus Kuenenia stuttgartiensis” was used as the out-group. Sequences from this study are indicated in bold. The scale bar indicates 10% sequence divergence. Bootstrap values above 70% are indicated.