Figure 1.

Phylogenetic tree highlighting the position of S. plymuthica AS12 in relation to selected Serratia strains and other genera within the family Enterobacteriaceae. The tree was based on 1,535 characters of the 16S rRNA gene sequence aligned in ClustalW2 [7]. The tree was inferred under the maximum likelihood criterion using MEGA5 software [8] and rooted with Pseudomonas trivialis (a member of the Pseudomonadaceae family). The branches are mapped by the expected number of substitutions per site. The numbers above the branches are support values from 1,000 bootstrap replicates if larger than 60% [9]. Lineages with genome sequences registered in GOLD [10] are shown in blue.