Figure 1

Rooted neighbour-joining tree based on the alignment (1265 nucleotides) of the 16S rRNA gene (96% of homology) sequence from the 48 so far recognized bifidobacterial taxa (Dec., 2013). The phylogenetic groups, as highlighted in grey shaded quadrangles, are the result of a previously performed multilocus analysis [9], integrated with the information resulting from the alignment of the 16S sequence of new bifidobacterial species.