Parasites & Vectors

Table 2 Results of the Mantel test and partial Mantel test comparing two factors (tick genetic distance and geographic distance) that predict the structure of genetic diversity in bacterial pathogens

From: The diversity and evolutionary relationships of ticks and tick-borne bacteria collected in China

	Model	r value (P value)
Rickettsia	Tick^a	0.5868 (0.0004)
	Tick^a \| geography^b	0.5952 (0.0009)
	Geography^a	0.0028 (0.3916)
	Geography \| tick^b	− 0.1225 (0.8633)
Coxiella	Tick^a	0.4939 (0.0001)
	Tick^a \| geography^b	0.4939 (0.0001)
	Geography^a	0.0013 (0.4499)
	Geography \| tick^b	0.0053 (0.4378)

^aMantel test
^bPartial Mantel test
| Indicates that the first factor excludes the effect of the second

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