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The figure shows a neighbor-joining tree based on the number of nucleotide differences between samples using all variable positions throughout the genome. Note that the DNA sequences of the two clones identified in the Mauritania strain are much more closely related (i.e., shorter branch lengths) than any other two sequences.
