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Table S1. Cellular fatty acid composition (%) of strains HFW-18 and
HFW-21
T.
Fig. S1. A transmission electron micrograph of a cell of
strain HFW-21
Tgrown on trypticase soy broth for 24 h at 30
°C. Bar, 0.2 μm.
Fig. S2. Neighbour-joining tree (Saitou & Nei, 1987)
showing phylogenetic positions of strains HFW-18 and HFW-21T
within the radiation encompassing representatives of the family
Nocardioidaceae . Tree construction was based on a total of
1348 nt in unambiguously aligned positions of 16S rRNA gene
sequences.
Streptomyces griseus KCTC 9080
T(M76388) was used as an outgroup. Asterisks at the
corresponding branches are those also found in both
maximum-likelihood (Felsenstein, 1981) and maximum-parsimony
(Fitch, 1971) trees. Numbers at the nodes are percentages of
bootstrap support (>50 %), based on a neighbour-joining
analysis of 1000 resamplings. Bar, 1 substitution per 100 nt
positions.