Figure 1.

Phylogenetic tree highlighting the position of D. maricopensis relative to the other type strains within the family Deinococcaceae. The tree was inferred from 1,382 aligned characters [25,26] of the 16S rRNA gene sequence under the maximum likelihood criterion [27] and rooted in accordance with the current taxonomy. The branches are scaled in terms of the expected number of substitutions per site. Numbers above branches are support values from 1,000 bootstrap replicates [28] if larger than 60%. Lineages with type strain genome sequencing projects registered in GOLD [29] are shown in blue, and published genomes in bold [30–34]. The genome of D. radiodurans published by White et al. in 1999 [35] later turned out not to be from the type strain [36].