Fig. 4.
Molecular phylogenetic analysis (deduced amino acid sequences of the pmoA gene) of strain TFB (indicated in bold red) and other related Type Ia, Type Ib, and Type Ic gammaproteobacterial methanotrophs were inferred using the Maximum Likelihood method based on the Dayhoff matrix-based model. Initial tree(s) for the heuristic search were obtained automatically by applying the Maximum Parsimony method. Bootstrap values (1,000 replicates) less than 40% are not shown. Evolutionary analyses were conducted in MEGA7. The Type IIb methanotroph, Methylocapsa acidiphila B2T (AJ278727) of the class Alphaproteobacteria (in the family Beijerinkiaceae) was used as outgroup. Bar, 0.10 substitutions per amino acid position.