Fig. 2
Phylogenetic tree showing the relationship of Ensifer medicae WSM244 (shown in bold blue print) to other type and non-type strains in the Ensifer genus and to other root nodule bacteria species in the order Rhizobiales, based on aligned sequences of the 16S rRNA gene (1,283 bp internal region). (The species name “Sinorhizobium chiapanecum” has not been validly published.) Azorhizobium caulinodans ORS 571T was used as an outgroup. All sites were informative and there were no gap-containing sites. Phylogenetic analyses were performed using MEGA, version 6 [37]. The tree was built using the Maximum-Likelihood method with the General Time Reversible model [38]. Bootstrap analysis [39] with 500 replicates was performed to assess the support of the clusters. Type strains are indicated with a superscript T. Strains with a genome sequencing project registered in GOLD [17] are in bold font and the GOLD ID is provided after the GenBank accession number. Finished genomes are indicated with an asterisk