Evolution of bopA Gene in Burkholderia: A Case of Convergent Evolution as a Mechanism for Bacterial Autophagy Evasion

Figure 2

Neighbor-joining tree of the BopA protein in all 51 completely sequenced Burkholderia strains (left). Two Shigella_flexneriIcsB were selected as the outgroup to root the tree. The numbers at each node were the bootstrap values. The two LIR motifs are marked on the right side of the phylogenetic tree (right). LIR motif at 177–182 from BopA of 9 B. thailandensis strains is absent.