Neighbor-joining tree constructed for the methanotrophic core genome.

<p>The tree is based on the alignment of 154 CDS that are common to all eight methanotroph genomes used for comparative analysis. Non-matching parts of the alignments were eliminated prior to tree construction. The individual gene alignments were combined into one concatenated alignment. The neighbor-joining tree was constructed using EDGAR. All branches of the phylogenetic tree showed 100% bootstrap support based on 500 replications. See ‘<a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0074767#s3" target="_blank">Materials and Methods</a>’ for further details.