Fig. 1.

Neighbour-joining phylogenetic tree based on 16S rRNA gene sequence of Paenibacillus spp. type (T) and novel (bold type) strains highlighting position of P. phoenicis and nine novel strains found in our study relative to other phylogenetically close organisms. Numbers at nodes are percentages of bootstrap values (>50%) obtained by repeating analysis 1000 times to generate majority consensus tree. Bacillus subtilis DSM10 was used as outgroup. Scale bar indicates 0.01 nucleotide sequence divergence. Numbers in bold correspond to nine strains identified as P. phoenicis in our study.