Research Article

Genome-Wide Investigation Reveals Potential Therapeutic Targets in Shigella spp.

Figure 1

The evolutionary phylogenetic relationships among different strains of Shigella. Genomes of 45 Shigella strains (S. flexneri, ; S. dysenteriae, ; S. boydii, ; and S. sonnei, ) were used to construct the phylogenetic tree applying maximum-likelihood method with 1000 bootstraps. The tree topology partitions the isolates into three distinct clades (clade 1–clade 3). Each node in the phylogenetic tree represents an isolate while the edge represents the hamming distance between two isolates.