Fig. 1: Core genome-based phylogeny of rod-shaped, coccoid and MuLDi Neisseriaceae.
From: Evolution of longitudinal division in multicellular bacteria of the Neisseriaceae family
The best evolutionary model for each partition was found by IQ-TREE version 1.6.381 and maximum-likelihood phylogenetic analysis was also performed using IQ-TREE82 using 10,000 ultrafast bootstrap replicates83. Above the name of each species, scanning electron microscopy images display their morphology. Dark and light blue: coccoid Neisseriaceae; green: rod-shaped Neisseriaceae; red: multicellular longitudinally dividing (MuLDi) Neisseriaceae. Coccoid lineages 1 and 2 are indicated in blue. MuLDi lineages 1 and 2 are indicated in red. N.: Neisseria; U.: Uruburuella; S.: Simonsiella; A.: Alysiella; K.: Kingella; C.: Conchiformibius; S.: Snodgrassella; V.: Vitreoscilla; E.: Eikenella; C.: Crenobacter. Crenobacter spp. served as out-group. In the absence of electron microscopy images, species’ morphology was defined as rod-shaped based on the reference strain describe in refs. 94 for K. negevensis95, for K. bonacorsii96, for K. denitrificans97, for E. longiqua and E. haliae98, for Crenobacter luteus99, for C. cavernae100, for C. sedimenti101, for C. intestine.
