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Tree is rooted to I. pacificus ( = brown) and included only sequences confirmed by blastn to be Ixodes scapularis. Pink = Mississippi samples; purple = Pennsylvania; red = specimens were blinded until after sequence confirmation. Numbers at nodes represent posterior probability values and branch length corresponds to number of substitutions.
