FIG. 1.

Phylogenetic tree showing the relative positions of L. plantarum, L. paraplantarum, and L. pentosus as inferred by the neighbor-joining method with the recA gene from B. subtilis as the outgroup sequence. Bootstrap values for a total of 1,000 replicates are given. Trees generated by the maximum likelihood and parsimony methods have the same topology. The bar indicates 10% sequence divergence. In this tree topology, the phylogenetic distance between organisms is the sum of the horizontal segments.