Fig. 1

A circular phylogenetic tree of SA1 constructed using 16S rRNA gene sequences of closely related valid type strains of Bacillus spp.The Streptococcus acidominimus DSM 20622 type strain was used as an outgroup. The evolutionary history was inferred using the Maximum Likelihood method and Hasegawa-Kishino-Yano model using 1000 bootstrap replicates.