Fig. 3

Phylogenetic relationships of Haemaphysalis spp., including H. erinacei ssp., based on the amplified part of the cox1 gene. Representative genotypes of ticks from this study are marked with location and isolate code (see Table 1 for details). The vertical red, yellow and blue lines mark the H. e. taurica, H. e. erinacei and H. e. turanica clades, respectively. Branch lengths represent the number of substitutions per site inferred according to the scale shown