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. 2012 Aug 30;2:615. doi: 10.1038/srep00615

Figure 3. Phylogenetic characterization of the prominent operational taxonomic units (OTUs) in the scent pouches of female hyenas.

Figure 3

The 16S rRNA-based phylogenetic tree illustrates the evolutionary relationships among OTUs constituting, on average, ≥ 0.5% of the surveyed sequences and nearest-neighbor type strains. For each of the OTUs, the respective information in parentheses indicates the average percent abundance of the OTU among the 16 scent pouches, the total number of pouches in which the OTU was found, and, if applicable, the genus to which the OTU was assigned by the RDP Classifier tool using an 80% confidence threshold. An accession number is provided for each type strain. The tree—rooted with Deinococcus radiodurans (Y11332)—was generated using the Randomized Accelerated Maximum Likelihood (RAxML) rapid bootstrap algorithm across 1000 iterations. Single and double asterisks denote bootstrap values ≥ 90 and 95, respectively. The scale bar, or branch length, reflects the mean number of nucleotide substitutions per site.