Figure 3. Maximum-Likelihood tree based on concatenated sequences of the seven housekeeping gene fragments of the MSLT scheme indicating the relative placement of type strains of Ochrobactrum spp. and 2 strains of Brucella spp.

The scale bar indicates the number of substitutions per nucleotide position. The numbers at the nodes are support values estimated with 100 bootstrap replicates. Rhizobium rhizogenes K84 was used as the outgroup organism. The sequences of O. intermedium strains ADV1, ADV101 and LMG18956 that represented the major CC in O. intermedium were also included. Asterisks indicate common nodes in Maximum-Likelihood and Neighbor-Joining trees.