Figure 1

Tree showing the positions of well-characterized strains and type strains within sequence clusters. A neighbour-joining radial tree was constructed using the concatenated sequences of all 420 strains. The viridans group strains that are coloured were those assigned to species in the laboratory of MK; the positions on the tree of the type strains of viridans group species are indicated. Mitis, Anginosus and Salivarius group species are shown, respectively, as coloured circles, squares and diamonds. Bootstrap support values (%) for each of the nodes leading to the Mitis group sequence clusters are indicated; values for the clusters within the Anginosus and Salivarius groups are shown in Figure 2C. The colour key is ordered top to bottom according to the position of the clusters on the radial tree, from S. pneumoniae to S. pyogenes.