Table 1.

Maximum patristic distances of the major clades in the most likely full-length 16S phylogenetic tree, out of a maximum patristic distance of 1.51 across the entire tree

Clade	Patristic distance
L. salivarius	0.5
L. casei	0.44
L. buchneri	0.54
L. plantarum	0.34
L. reuteri	0.55
L. delbrueckii (acidophilus)	1.21