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In recent years, the planctomycetes have been recognized as a phylum of environmentally important bacteria with habitats ranging from soil and freshwater to marine ecosystems. The planctomycetes form an independent phylum within the bacterial domain, whose exact phylogenetic position remains controversial. With the completion of sequencing of the genome of ‘’ SH 1, it is now possible to re-evaluate the phylogeny of the planctomycetes based on multiple genes and genome trees in addition to single genes like the 16S rRNA or the elongation factor Tu. Here, evidence is presented based on the concatenated amino acid sequences of ribosomal proteins and DNA-directed RNA polymerase subunits from ‘’ SH 1 and more than 90 other publicly available genomes that support a relationship of the and the . Affiliation of ‘’ SH 1 and the was reasonably stable regarding site selection since, during stepwise filtering of less-conserved sites from the alignments, it was only broken when rigorous filtering was applied. In a few cases, ‘’ SH 1 shifted to a deep branching position adjacent to the / clade. These findings are in agreement with recent publications, but the deep branching position was dependent on site selection and treeing algorithm and thus not stable. A genome tree calculated from normalized scores did not confirm a close relationship of ‘’ SH 1 and the , but also indicated that the do not emerge at the very root of the . Therefore, these analyses rather contradict a deep branching position of the within the bacterial domain and reaffirm their earlier proposed relatedness to the .

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