Evolutionary relationships among epsilon protebacteria based on (A) 16s RNA (B) concatenated sequences for 9 conserved proteins and (C) Phylogenomic distribution of epsilon proteobacteria-specific proteins and indels (Gupta, BMC Genomics, 2006).
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