Fig. 1. Phylogenetic tree based on 16S rRNA gene sequences, showing the phylogenetic position of D. chitinilytica Nsw-4T
and related taxa in the class Betaproteobacteria. The neighbour-joining method was employed with the Kimura two-parameter
model. Numbers at nodes are bootstrap percentages (.50 %) based on both the neighbour-joining (above nodes) and
maximum-parsimony (below nodes) tree-making algorithms. Filled circles indicate branches of the tree that were also recovered
using the maximum-likelihood and maximum-parsimony tree-making algorithms. Open circles indicate that the corresponding
nodes were also recovered in the tree generated with the maximum-parsimony algorithm. The sequence of Cupriavidus
taiwanensis LMG 19424T was used as an outgroup. Bar, 0.01 substitutions per nucleotide position.