Figure 2
Phylogenetic tree highlighting the position of H. lutea relative to the type strains of the other species within Halomonas . According to the most recent release of the EzTaxon-e database, all the 16S rRNA gene sequences of the type strains within genus Halomonas were retained. The tree was inferred from 1,383 aligned bases [29] under the neighbor-joining (NJ) [30] and maximum-likelihood (ML) [31] methods with 1,000 randomly selected bootstrap replicates using MEGA version 5.2 [32]. The branches are scaled in terms of the expected number of substitutions per site. Numbers adjacent to the branches are support values from 1,000 NJ bootstrap (left) and from 1,000 ML bootstrap (right) replicates [33] if they are larger than 50%. Lineages with type strain genome sequencing projects registered in Genomes OnLine Database (GOLD) [34] are labeled with one asterisk, and those have available genomic data are labeled with two asterisks. Non-type strain LS21of H. campaniensis and H. elongata DSM 2581T listed ‘Complete and Published’ are also labeled with two asterisks.