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This website is about bacteria known as rhizobia. These bacteria form a symbiotic relationship with a group of plants called legumes. The rhizobia live inside plant structures (root nodules), and fix nitrogen from the air into a form usable by the plants.

Specifically this website is about my PhD project, which was to investigate the taxonomy and specificity of rhizobia in New Zealand. Additionally this website contains taxonomy information about all rhizobia species, and taxonomy information about the native legume species present in New Zealand. I keep the rhizobia taxonomy page up-to-date, with all the new species, including those from genera not normally considered to nodulate legumes such as Devosia.

Additionally I have put up a guide to the Modeltest program that is used to find the model of DNA evolution that best describes a given sequence alignment.

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