Figure 3 in Molecular detection of Borrelia anserina in Argas persicus (Acari: Argasidae) ticks collected from Lorestan province, west of Iran

Figure 3. The phylogenetic tree inferred from flaB amino acids sequence data of B. anserina (clade I) and other Borrelia taxa (clade II, KX171816 and JF693808) constructed using Neighbor-Joining (NJ) method with bootstrap test (1,000 replicates). The main clade in right side of tree separated with colored rectangular shape. Taxa are as species name following GenBank accession number, taxon of the present study indicated as bold. Nodes indicated with bootstrap value. Branch lengths are proportional to evolutionary changes, the units of the number of amino acid substitutions per site. The analysis involved 12 amino acid sequences. All positions containing gaps and missing data were eliminated. There were a total of 166 positions in the final dataset. The more diverged Pakistani strain of B. anserina (JF693808) located outside the main B. anserina (clade I). The members of clade II and B. hermsii are as outgroup.