Figure 1

16S rRNA-based phylogenetic tree highlighting the position of Merdibacter massiliensis gen. nov. sp., nov., strain Marseille-P3254 (red) relative to other closely related bacterial taxa within the family Erysipelotrichaceae as well as members of the family Eubacteriaceae. Genbank accession numbers are presented in parentheses. Sequences were aligned using Muscle v3.8.31 with default parameters and phylogenetic relationship inferred using the Maximum Likelihood method, with 1,000 bootstrap replicates, within the MEGA software version 7.0. Only values above 70% were indicated. Rhizobium leguminosarum was used as outgroup.