Fig. 2
Neighbor-joining tree based on the 16S rRNA gene sequences showing the phylogenetic relationships between Leuconostoc suionicum DSM 20241T (highlighted in bold) and closely related Leuconostoc species. The sequences were aligned using the fast secondary-structure aware Infernal aligner available from the Ribosomal Database Project [28] and the tree was constructed based on the neighbor-joining algorithm using PHYLIP software (ver. 3.68) [29]. Bootstrap values of over 70% are shown on the nodes as percentages of 1000 replicates. Weissella viridescens 1536T (AB023236) was used as an outgroup (not shown). Bar indicates 0.01 changes per nucleotide position