Figure 1

Neighborhood-joining analysis using 25 taxa of hemotropic Mycoplasma species (including Mycoplasma pneumonia ) from the Genbank database and the 16S rRNA gene sequence obtained from the brown bats (Genbank accession KF713538) in this study. Candidatus status was omitted for simplicity. The evolutionary relationship was inferred using the Neighbor-Joining method. The optimal tree with the sum of branch length = 0.95954352 is shown. 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. All positions containing gaps and missing data were eliminated from the dataset (Complete deletion option). Phylogenetic analyses were conducted in MEGA4.