Fig. 2

Phylogenetic tree of Bacillus strains based on 16S rRNA constructed by neighbor joined method with Alicyclobacillus acidocaldarius as outgroup. Legend: B. = Bacillus. The bootstrap consensus tree inferred from 1000 replicates is taken to represent the evolutionary history of the taxa analyzed. Numbers next to the branches are the percentage of replicate trees in which the associated taxa clustered together in the bootstrap test (1000 replicates). This analysis involved 55 nucleotide sequences. All ambiguous positions were removed for each sequence pair (pairwise deletion option)