Fig. 1

Phylogenetic tree based on the 16S rRNA gene showing the position of Salinicoccus halodurans H3B36 relative to other species in the genus Salinicoccus. Staphylococcus aureus was used as an outgroup. The analysis involved 18 nucleotide sequences, and there were a total of 1394 positions in the final dataset. GenBank accession numbers for the sequences of each strain are indicated in parentheses. The maximum likelihood algorithm based on the Kimura 2-parameter model was used to construct the phylogenetic consensus tree. All positions containing missing data and gaps were eliminated. Numbers next to the branches represent the bootstrap values obtained by repeating the analysis 1000 times, and values of less than 70 % are not shown at the nodes. The tree is drawn to scale, with branch lengths indicating the number of substitutions per site