Figure 1.

Phylogenetic consensus tree based on 16S rRNA gene sequences showing the relationship between Salinicoccus carnicancri strain Crm^T and the type strains of other species in the genus Salinicoccus. The type strain of Staphylococcus aureus was used as an outgroup. The GenBank accession numbers for the 16S rRNA genes of each strain are shown in parentheses. Filled diamonds indicate identical branches present in the phylogenetic consensus trees constructed using the neighbor-joining (NJ), maximum-parsimony (MP), and maximum-likelihood (ML) algorithms. The numbers at the nodes represent the bootstrap values as percentages of 1,000 replicates and values <70% are not shown at the branch points. The scale bar represents 0.01 nucleotide change per nucleotide position.