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Maximum-likelihood phylogeny based upon 53,377 core genome SNPs shared in nine publicly available FLE genomes (S1 Table) and DNA enriched from five whole ticks/tick cell lines (bold text). The phylogeny is rooted on the branch indicated with * and scale bar units are average nucleotide substitutions per site.
