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Psychroserpens damuponensis F051-1T (HQ336490)

Capnocytophaga ochracea ATCC 27872T (U41350)

Formosa agariphila KMM 3901T (AY187688)

Formosa algae KMM 3553T (AY228461)

Formosa spongicola A2T (FJ348469)

Bizionia echini KMM 6177T (FJ716799)

Bizionia algoritergicola APA-1T (AY694003)

Bizionia myxarmorum ADA-4T (AY694002)

Bizionia argentinensis JUB59T (EU021217)

Bizionia saleffrena HFDT (AY694005)

Bizionia gelidisalsuginis IC164T (AY694004)

Bizionia paragorgiae KMM 6029T (AY651070)

Psychroserpens burtonensis ACAM188T (U62913)

Psychroserpens mesophilus KOPRI 13649T (DQ001321)

Geojedonia litorea YCS-16T (JX994295)

Lacinutrix mariniflava AKS432T (DQ167239)

Lacinutrix algicola AKS293T (DQ167238)

Lacinutrix copepodicola DJ3T (AY694001)

Olleya marilimosa CAM030T (EF660466)

Olleya aquimaris L-4T (FJ886713)

Mesoflavibacter zeaxanthinifaciens TD-ZX30T (AB265181)

Meridianimaribacter flavus NH57NT (FJ360684)

Gaetbulibacter saemankumensis SMK-12T (AY883937)

Gaetbulibacter marinus IMCC1914T (EF108219)

Flaviramulus basaltis H35T (DQ361033)

Mariniflexile fucanivorans SW5T (AJ628046)

Mariniflexile gromovii KMM 6038T (DQ312294)

Algibacter lectus KMM 3902T (AY187689)

Algibacter mikhailovii KMM 6171T (AM491809)

Tamlana agarivorans JW-26T (EU221275)

Tamlana crocina HST1-43T (AM286230)

Winogradskyella thalassocola KMM 3907T (AY521223)

Winogradskyella eximia KMM 3944T (AY521225)

Winogradskyella epiphytica KMM 3906T (AY521224)

Winogradskyella echinorum KMM 6211T (EU727254)

Winogradskyella exilis 022-2-26T (FJ595484)

Gelidibacter gilvus IC158T (AF001369)

Gelidibacter algens ACAM 536T (U62914)

Gelidibacter salicanali IC162T (AY694009)

Gelidibacter mesophilus 2SM29T (AJ344133)

Subsaximicrobium wynnwilliamsii G#7T (AY693997)

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Supplementary Fig. 1 Neighbour-joining phylogenetic tree based on 16S rRNA gene sequences showing

the positions of Geojedonia litorea YCS-16T and representatives of other related taxa in the family

Flavobacteriaceae. Bootstrap values (expressed as percentages of 1000 replications) of > 50 % are shown

at branching points. Filled circles indicate that the corresponding nodes were also recovered in the trees

generated with the maximum-likelihood and maximum-parsimony algorithms. Capnocytophaga ochracea

ATCC 27872T (GenBank accession number, U41350) was used as an outgroup. Fig. 1 was taken from

Supplementary Fig. 1.