FIGURE 2. Phylogenetic tree developed from the 16S rDNA sequence of unknown 2-9-3 compared with several other species of the family Bacillaceae.

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Isolation of a 250 million-year-old halotolerant bacterium from a primary salt crystal

Russell H. Vreeland, William D. Rosenzweig and Dennis W. Powers

Nature 407, 897-900(19 October 2000)

doi:10.1038/35038060

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The bootstrap values from 100 repetitions for each grouping are shown to the left of the branch. The Genbank accession numbers for the organisms used in this analysis are Bacillus megaterium X60629; B. subtilis X60646; B. marismortui AJ009793; Isolate 2-9-3 AF166093; B. coagulans X60614; B. circulans X60613; B. marinus AJ237708; Virgibacillus pantothenticus X60627; V. proomii AJ0122667; Halobacillus littoralis X94558; Gracilibacillus halotolerans AF036922; G. dipsosauri X82436; Salibacillus salexigens (Slb.) Y11603; Sporosarcina halophila (Spc.) X62174. Lactobacillus casei D16553 served as the outgroup.

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