Table 4.

Species identified in GenBank^a containing the identical signal peptide^b for the Vtp and OspC orthologous proteins.

Species	100% Coverage	100% Identity
B. hermsii GGI	X	X
B. hermsii GGII	X	X
B. burgdorferi	X	X
B. garinii	X	X
B. afzelii	X	X
B. valaisiana	X	X
B. bissettiae	X	X
B. japonica	X	X
B. spielmanii	X	X
B. bavariensis	X	X
B. tanuki	X	X
B. turdi	X	X
B. yangtze	X	X
B. findlandensis	X	X
B. chilensis	X	X
B. mayonii	X	X
B. americana c	89%	X
B. carolinensis c	89%	X
B. andersonii	?d	?
B. kurtenbachii	?	?
B. lusitaniae	?	?
B. sinica	?	?
B. lanei	?	?

^aSearch performed February 19, 2019

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^cMissing first two amino acids MK

^d? = OspC sequence not found or only partial sequence that lacked signal peptide