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Neighbor-joining 10 tree based on MLST data for 139 strains

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posted on 2011-12-30, 15:05 authored by BR Holland, J Schmid

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Taken from "Selecting representative model micro-organisms"

BMC Microbiology 2005;5():26-26.

Published online 17 May 2005

PMCID:PMC1156902.

Each MLST scheme has seven genes, these genes were concatenated together and a distance matrix (used by both neighbor-joining and the greedy-BTC method) was constructed based on uncorrected distances between pairs of sequences (i.e. the proportion of sites that differ). The blue triangles indicate the five model strains selected using the greedy-BTC method. Coloured circles indicate model strains selected by six researchers. The inset histogram compares the BTC-scores of the greedy and human selection to 1000 random selections of five model strains.