Table 3.
Phylogenetic Scenarios Observed for Chlamydial Proteins Encoded in Plant Genomes.
| Evolutionary Scenario | Branching Pattern in Trees | Number of Treesa |
| I | (Chlamydiae, Plantae) | 9 |
| II | (Chlamydiaeb, Plantae) | 8 |
| III | (Chlamydiaec, Plantae) | 6 |
| IV | (Chlamydiaceae (other Chlamydiae, Plantae)) | 5 |
| V | (Chlamydiaec, Rhodophyta) | 1 |
| VI | (Chlamydiaec, Chlorophyta) | 2 |
| VII | (Rhodophyta (Chlamydiae, Viridiplantae)) | 3 |
| VIII | (Chlorophyta (Chlamydiae, Streptophyta)) | 4 |
| IX | Protein present in Plantae and Chlamydiaeb only | 9 |
| X | Other | 3 |
NOTE.—Details and trees are available in supplementary table S15 and the Supplementary Material online.
a
Orthologs were considered only once.
b
Protein trees do not reflect the 16S rRNA-based tree topology within the Chlamydiae.
c
No homologs in the Chlamydiaceae.