Fig. 2

Panel a-Dendrogram based on Euclidean distances of 71 carbon sources and 23 chemical utilization characteristics for nine actinomycetes. This dendrogram was constructed by using average linkage (between groups). Panel b - Phylogenetic tree based on 16S rRNA gene sequences obtained by the neighbor-joining (NJ) method showing the phylogenetic relationships among nine actinobacterial phylotypes of this study (shown in boldface) and related actinobacteria. Numbers at nodes indicate levels of bootstrap support (%) based on a NJ analysis of 1,000 resampled datasets, only values greater than 50 % are shown. Asterisks indicate branches that were also recovered using the maximum parsimony (MP) and maximum likelihood (ML) algorithms. NCBI accession numbers are given in parentheses. Bar 0.02 nucleotide substitutions per site. The sequence of Bacillus subtilis HU70 (EU302267) was used as the out-group