Table 2. F. tularensis genome sequences used in this study.

Species	Subspecies	Strain	Alt. name	Origin	GenBank
F. tularensis	tularensis A1
		FSC198	SE-219	Mite, Bratislava, Slovakia, 1988	AM286280.1
		FSC043		Attenuated SCHU S4 phenotypic variant
		SCHU S4a	FSC237	SCHU phenotypic variant, 1951	AJ749949.2
		FSC033	SnMF	Squirrel, GA, USA, 1992	AAYE00000000.1
	tularensis A2
		WY96-3418		Human ulcer, WY, USA, 1996	CP000608.1
	holarctica
		LVS	ATCC 29684	Live vaccine strain, NDBR lot 11	AM233362.1

^aSCHU S4 was derived from SCHU in 1951 by Henry T. Eigelsbach [42]. SCHU was originally isolated from human ulcer in Ohio 1941 by Dr. Lee Foshay [43].