Figure 1.

Phylogenetic tree highlighting the position of H. zhanjiangensis relative to the closest related type strains of the other species within the family Halomonadaceae. All the 16S rRNA gene sequences of the type strains within the genus Halomonas were included and combined with the representative 16S rRNA gene sequences of the type species in other genera, according to the most recent release of the EzTaxon database. The tree was inferred from 1,381 aligned characters [16] under the neighbor-joining (NJ) [17], and maximum-likelihood (ML) [18] method with 1,000 randomly selected bootstrap replicates using MEGA version 5.2 [19]. The branches are scaled in terms of the expected number of substitutions per site. Numbers adjacent to the branches are support values from 1,000 NJ bootstrap (left) and from 1,000 ML bootstrap (right) replicates [20] if larger than 60%. Lineages with type strain genome sequencing projects registered in GOLD [21] are labeled with one asterisk, those also listed as ‘Complete and Published’ with two asterisks [22].