Table 6 Faith’s phylogenetic diversity (PD) of the A. phagocytophilum haplotypes associated with the investigated arthropods species. A low PD value indicates a significant association between a haplotype and an arthropod species (marked with an asterisk)

Ixodes pacificus

2

2

0.01*

Ixodes pavlovskyi

3

2

0.81

Ixodes persulcatus

26

7

0.13

Ixodes ricinus

741

101

0.01*

Ixodes trianguliceps

4

4

0.01*

Ixodes ventalloi

6

3

0.46

Lipoptena cervi

6

5

0.20