MOESM2 of Prevalence, antibiotic susceptibility and virulence factors of Enterococcus species in racing pigeons (Columba livia f. domestica)

Additional file 2. Phylogenetic tree based on 16S gene sequence analysis, showing the relationships among 145 commensal Enterococcus species from racing pigeons. Five isolates no. 83, 86, 99, 129, 133 were finally identified (sodA PCR and sequencing) as E. mundtii, E. durans, E. faecium, and E. hirae (2x) respectively, although 16S-sequencing recognized them as E. columbae. The percentage of replicate trees in which the associated taxa clustered together in the bootstrap test (1000 replicates) are shown next to the branches. The tree is drawn to scale, with branch lengths in the same units as those of the evolutionary distances used to infer the phylogenetic tree. The evolutionary distances were computed using the Maximum Composite Likelihood method and are in the units of the number of base substitutions per site.