Figure 1.

Phylogenetic tree highlighting the position of C. halotolerans relative to type strains of other species within the genus Corynebacterium as selected by Chen et al. [1]. In addition, the recently described C. maris, C. marinum, and C. humireducens were added, as they were shown to be closely related. Furthermore, the type strain of the genus, C. diphtheriae [11], was included. Species with at least one publicly available genome sequence (not necessarily the type strain) are highlighted in bold face. The tree is based on sequences aligned by the RDP aligner, utilizes the Jukes-Cantor corrected distance model to construct a distance matrix based on alignment model positions without the use of alignment inserts, and uses a minimum comparable position of 200. The tree is built with RDP Tree Builder, which uses Weighbor [12] with an alphabet size of 4 and length size of 1,000. The building of the tree also involves a bootstrapping process repeated 100 times to generate a majority consensus tree [13]. Rhodococcus equi (X80614) was used as an outgroup.