Maximum-likelihood phylogenetic tree of
Y. pseudotuberculosis
,
Y. wautersii
and
Y. pestis
based on 500 concatenated multiple sequence alignments. The tree was rooted with
Y. similis
(not shown). Only bootstrap-based branch support values >70 % are shown. Bar, 0.001 amino acid substitutions per character. AAG, Auto-agglutinable; NAG, non-agglutinable; NT, non-typable as
Y. pestis
does not harbour the O-antigen; O, O antigen serotype; Unk, unknown serotype.