Table 8 The mean pairwise distance (MPD) of A. phagocytophilum haplotypes found in different arthropod species. MPD-C is the comparison of MPD against null communities

Ixodes pacificus

2

0.11

− 2.12

0.04*

Ixodes pavlovskyi

2

1.96

0.89

0.82

Ixodes persulcatus

7

1.13

− 1.26

0.11

Ixodes ricinus

101

1.15

− 5.66

0.01*

Ixodes trianguliceps

4

0.05

− 4.31

0.01*

Ixodes ventalloi

3

1.31

− 0.20

0.37

Lipoptena cervi

5

1.21

− 0.59

0.23