The three strains
produced a subcluster with L. fructivorans, L. homohiochii,
L. lindneri and L. sanfranciscensis inside the L. buchneri
phylogenetic group on the basis of neighbour-joining
analysis (Fig. 1). Identical tree topologies were obtained by
using the maximum-likelihood and maximum-parsimony
analysis (see Supplementary Figs S1 and S2 in IJSEM
Online).