Fig. 5

Minimum spanning net for distances on basis of a Kimura two-parameter (K2P) model corrected distance matrix from sequence alignment, showing the relations between the different A. phagocytophilum groEL variants determined from this study. The corresponding hosts and an exemplary sequence for each variant can be found in Additional file 2: Table S7. Variants highlighted in pink include cattle, and those highlighted in blue include dogs; the green circle shows variant g-nm24 connecting the two parts of the net. Labelling is explained in “Data compilation and naming of sequences” section