Fig. 2

Neighbor-joining phylogeny inferred from data for 16S rRNA sequences of S. socius SMB35^T, Salinicola sp. MH3R3–1, Chromohalobacter sp. SMB17 and other species of the Halomonadaceae family. The optimal tree with the sum of branch length = 0.95863591 is shown. The percentage of replicate trees in which the associated taxa clustered together in the bootstrap test (1000 replicates) are shown next to the branches. The tree is drawn to scale, with branch lengths in the same units as those of the evolutionary distances used to infer the phylogenetic tree. The evolutionary distances were computed using the Kimura 2-parameter method [39] and are in the units of the number of base substitutions per site. The analysis involved 56 nucleotide sequences. All positions containing gaps and missing data were eliminated. There were a total of 1241 positions in the final dataset. Evolutionary analyses were conducted in MEGA7 [40]