Fig. 7.

Relative abundance for select bacterial taxa of interest (aggregated to the family level) from wildlife samples. Statistical analysis between sample types was done using a Wilcoxon pairwise (non-parametric) test with significance values indicated as follows: NS for P>0.05; * for P≤0.05; ** for P≤0.01; *** for P≤0.001; **** for P≤0.0001. Taxa of interest are defined as bacteria related to known pathogens associated with ticks and other vectors described globally, as outlined in Egan et al. [18].