Fig 2. UPGMA clustering analysis of mediasiatica strains based on MLVA15 data.
The dendrogram was constructed using UPGMA (Unweighted Pair Group Method with Arithmetic Mean). The MLVA data of 12 loci are shown (loci Ft-M16, Ft-M23 and Ft-M24 with an identical allele 1 in all strains are masked). The Table 3# index refers to the location indicated in Fig 4and numbering in Table 3. The cluster cut-off value of 60% defines three groups, labelled M.I (Central Asian origin, red), M.II (Altaic origin, green) and M.III (Karakalpak, blue). Strains from SRCAMB collection are indicated using prefix SRCAMB#.
