FIGURE 7.

Phylogenetic tree under maximum likelihood criteria of FeOB-associated OTUs (bold) detected from our present study together with other known iron-oxidizing bacterial species and environmental clones (Emerson and Moyer, 2002; Kato et al., 2009, 2014; Li et al., 2012). Sequences of 16S rRNA gene obtained from universal bacterial primers 21F/1492R (∼1.5 kb) and FeOB-specific primers Zeta674F/1492R (800 bp), 122F/998R (900 bp) are combined together to construct the phylogenetic tree. Numbers in brackets indicate the number of clones. Bootstrap support is shown at nodes for 1000 bootstrap replicates under maximum likelihood.