Figure 1.

Phylogenetic tree highlighting the position of R. anatipestifer relative to a selection of the other type strains within the family Flavobacteriaceae. The tree was inferred from 1,391 aligned characters [14,15] of the 16S rRNA gene sequence under the maximum likelihood criterion [16] and rooted with the type strain of the family Flavobacteriaceae. The branches are scaled in terms of the expected number of substitutions per site. Numbers above branches are support values from 750 bootstrap replicates [17] if larger than 60%. Lineages with type strain genome sequencing projects registered in GOLD [18] are shown in blue, published genomes in bold.