Figure 2

Phylogenetic trees constructed using the neighbor-joining method with the sequences of the V2-V3 region of the 16S rRNA gene (A) and the ITS region (B) from the isolated LAB strains and their taxonomic neighbors. The V2-V3 gene sequence from E. coli DSM 30083^T (HQ012019) was used as the outgroup in (A). The ITS sequence from E. coli K-12 (X12420) was used as the outgroup in (B). Bootstrap values based upon 1000 replicates are included at the major branch points. The bars show the number of nucleotide substitutions per site.