Figure 10.

Reconstruction of phylogenetic relationship of E. coli with other members of the Enterobacteriaceae family and two outgroup taxa (represented by genera Vibrio and Haemophilus) by the recursive segmentation clustering method and the FFP method. The phylogenetic relationship inferred from a tree based on ribosomal RNA gene is depicted at the bottom. On y-axis is shown the GWD between Escherichia and other organisms obtained using an alignment-free approach, while the order of divergence of organisms from Escherichia is shown along the x-axis.