FIG 1.

16S rRNA-based phylogenetic analyses of the strains identified in the present study and of eight sequences representative of the different species of the genus Anaplasma. Even though both character-based and distance-based evolutionary analyses generated coinciding trees, only the evolutionary history inferred using the neighbor-joining method is shown, with sum of branch length of 0.32723954. The percentages of replicate trees in which the associated taxa clustered together in the bootstrap test (1,000 replicates) are shown next to the branches. All positions containing gaps and missing data were eliminated. There were a total of 760 positions in the final data set. E. canis and R. rickettsii were used as outgroups.