Figure 1.

Consensus phylogenetic tree highlighting the position of Nesterenkonia massiliensis strain NP1^T relative to other type strains within the Nesterenkonia genus. Genbank accession numbers are indicated for each species. Sequences were aligned using CLUSTALW and phylogenetic inferences obtained using the maximum-likelihood method in the MEGA software package. Numbers at the nodes are percentages of bootstrap values from 500 replicates that support the node. Micrococcus luteus was used as the outgroup. The scale bar represents a 5% nucleotide sequence divergence.