Streptomyces coelicolor (mycelial filament with hyphae and spores). Black dots denote ancestral nodes of selected major taxa: DT, Deinococcus-Thermus Ac, Actinobacteria Cf, Chloroflexi Cn, Cyanobacteria Fi, Firmicutes (inclusive of Mollicutes) Sp, Spirochetes PVC, Planctomycetes, Verrucomicrobia, Chlamydiae Cb, Chlorobi Bd, Bacteroidetes α, β, γ, δ, ε, Proteobacteria subdivisions. FastTree generated an approximate maximum likelihood tree from the resulting concatenated alignment. Sequence data gathered from the Joint Genome Institute and the National Center for Biotechnology Information were searched for reference genes and aligned using Phylosift. Myriad morphologies have evolved throughout the bacterial domain.īacterial phylogeny derived from genome sequence data for selected species, with an emphasis on morphologically and phylogenetically diverse taxa. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.Ĭompeting interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.įig 1. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.įunding: Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under award number R01GM51986 to YVB and by National Research Service Award F32GM112362 to AMR.

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