Defluorination of Sodium Fluoroacetate by Bacteria from Soil and Plants in Brazil

Figure 1

Phylogenetic tree based on 16S rRNA sequences by Maximum Parsimony analysis. ECPB01 to ECPB07 represent the isolate code and Methanobacterium sp. MO-MB1 (gi∣311141366∣dbj∣AB598270.1∣) the outgroup. The evolutionary history was inferred using the Maximum Parsimony method. The bootstrap consensus tree inferred from 1000 replicates is taken to represent the evolutionary history of the taxa analyzed. Branches corresponding to partitions reproduced in less than 50% bootstrap replicates are collapsed. The percentage of replicate trees in which the associated taxa clustered together in the bootstrap test (1000 replicates) is shown next to the branches. The MP tree was obtained using the Close-Neighbor-Interchange algorithm with search level 1 in which the initial trees were obtained with the random addition of sequences (10 replicates). The analysis involved 8 nucleotide sequences. All positions containing gaps and missing data were eliminated. There were a total of 1235 positions in the final dataset. Evolutionary analyses were conducted in MEGA5.