Figure 6.

Phylogenetic analysis of 16S rRNA sequences of Anaplasma spp. using the maximum likelihood method based on the General Time Reversible model. In the phylogenetic tree, GenBank sequences, species designations and strain names are given. The sequence investigated in the present study is marked with a black square. The tree with the highest log likelihood (−851.75) is shown. The percentage of trees in which the associated taxa clustered together is shown next to the branches (bootstrap values). The rate variation model allowed for some sites to be evolutionarily invariable ([+I], 45.53% sites). The tree is drawn to scale, with branch lengths measured in the number of substitutions per site. This analysis involved 15 nucleotide sequences. There were a total of 459 positions in the final dataset.