The partial 16S rRNA gene sequences were compared to
the Genbank databases using the BLASTN algorithm.
They were then aligned with their closest relatives
retrieved from Genbank database using the MUSCLE
program [3]. A phylogenetic tree was subsequently
constructed using the Neighbor-Joining algorithm and
Jukes and Cantor correction, with the MEGA program
[3]. The robustness of tree topologies was verified by
500 bootstrap samplings